From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 29 11:29:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 484114EC for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:29:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-x236.google.com (mail-wg0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAF801D72 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:29:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f54.google.com with SMTP id y10so3478779wgg.21 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:29:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=59HZUsXkIHjTtvud49gMkRlno1Hih5DeFkv4axZ9oRk=; b=S5NHt0uQkbsyexQ8Xj4nJhRpaILJcN7gdIj2prw8dTK/WP0De3FPylhaovUS2SbS85 Ys2gNboX4S2FnZ+FRKJe2WFqFC9RrldDtdpq9M5gPi2oqeb9aWE+6l1Jh7Dz/n8UBwQz 538MPKPo724cCjVAoYYEHcIdq1afCCtVGAxJWFxIzBSPfV0/tmQwmabt4zfA5rfhcBcm LPHSf15xTX8TZAqfaI8Me4taR/0VwsFTyCFJSJGyR+6xJSM7vLrSOxQav8MNOGrOm/SI 2/DArvFaAxjibm79HS8lTEkAPq/aNZhINCUYT2KKi7GGjvQkY6i/xMNmD6mFQfYLRq9Q ZG6Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.108.165 with SMTP id hl5mr45295844wjb.22.1367234958939; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.76.147 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:29:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:29:18 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ZFS on MBR does not boot at all From: David Demelier To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:29:20 -0000 2013/4/18 David Demelier : > Hello, > > I would like to use ZFS over MBR for multiboot purposes. I've followed > that guide https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition but it > does not boot at all. The loader does not show up after choosing > FreeBSD in the boot0 loader. > > The _ prompt appears but nothing starts. I've found many people over > the web having the same problem but unfortunately no one found a > solution. > > I think the offensive commands are ones with dd and zfsboot. > > Regards, > So someone told me on IRC that the main problem was that I've put my partition swap as first partition in the FreeBSD slice and zfsboot *requires* that the zfs partition is the first. Can someone with right access to the wiki page may add a notice about this issue on https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition please? Regards, -- Demelier David