From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 17:56:00 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 967D58EC for ; Sat, 17 May 2014 17:56:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x22a.google.com (mail-ob0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5963928FA for ; Sat, 17 May 2014 17:56:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f170.google.com with SMTP id uy5so4459160obc.29 for ; Sat, 17 May 2014 10:55:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=mxG8Y5zFpUoLZrk8WegwhpvPyKih2IM0sE5ZgYaTZQY=; b=Dhhmo5squmWZNio56hTuvgpot8M+wITvrzjKlasLV6TIoQrKb9Lp4eHSbuVyzHMfqV uuGFM+kTC+SWHx6aaReI4QoPGZXaZX0byYyECeLzF2f0jd+NOpEW2qTgg+oTZdxsxHBG kjpiUNqbzzG7LSugK/I6P9QZkg0v6WDy85h+adJhiqdPLOtG+3UHpc5HJGFSo9tD9tJF yfbuIqQxSjqkEGtGOELvCZQrYcDr1YhV+Zkz99yzDUg62UtUT0qcdTR5B6IiFMgknCOp cC2sITy0o0SmSnRBdjetJpEJ5zKL8vPc4QzMzp5S6XqyI5obGUaWMPNaKzmcHTc/VyTc empA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.241.9 with SMTP id we9mr3418864obc.81.1400349359609; Sat, 17 May 2014 10:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.87.73 with HTTP; Sat, 17 May 2014 10:55:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <53582881.9020301@allanjude.com> Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 13:55:59 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s From: "Sevan / Venture37" To: freebsd-current Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 17:56:00 -0000 On 2 May 2014 12:14, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: > On 23 April 2014 21:54, Allan Jude wrote: >> If anyone who is having trouble getting ZFS booting on one of these >> Lenovos is going to be at BSDCan, and has a spare disk they are willing >> to let me hack on, I would be interested in trying to get it booting for >> you so we can develop a solution to this issue if there is one. I am >> under the impression the issue is the way gpart does the MBR (or pMBR) >> with respect to the 'active' flag, but there are a number of different >> things i'd like to try. >> >> It all works flawlessly on my T530 > > I'll be at BSDCan with the laptop, you can see what's up for yourself. :) For archaeological reasons, the X61s was able to boot using ZFS on a BSD partition scheme (Thanks to Allen), the system can also boot from a ZFS volume with a MBR partition scheme if you *do not* use the stock FreeBSD boot loader & switch to GRUB, this was tested by doing a stock install of PCBSD 10.0-RELEASE. Sevan / Venture37