From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 18:13:22 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD91C106564A for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 18:13:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gkontos.mail@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79CA38FC0A for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 18:13:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyj12 with SMTP id 12so4712490iyj.13 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 11:13:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=pTkJ2VhN2WqlF6HJamDnmkKUyJEwju0r8GEFnoOp1LU=; b=fwG07CXXaAuhbJYjOe9saMh5bIVoXzswQSPybBwXeiQkUHgn5NiBp2fu2+3Dar+t0C o2TtNFBoDoK9za3uxOOTeYpi/w+EBFL9pnmOVA5Udw+Higg0n7ewAOq1HpViPQzaBj5U EVDEb4S7gJAxDi4YW8bWhBgjiZH+k/cXkit9E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=p7FDcdwCO/+gabTqRFNWTDPpMFvIqkCgZI++44Hm25Uv66hgAf+S6HcRqL37tAzod9 2H9jlyAc7gu2sj9V0jKrCHXNt9dU26+/soGyRpYW17fWYeYBoOntfqAEn686ykfSOEfA jrIn/qolpwLeeiQPMgnX6OSEQc6LCOiXQiknQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.127.198 with SMTP id h6mr6716677ibs.199.1306779201826; Mon, 30 May 2011 11:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.215.42 with HTTP; Mon, 30 May 2011 11:13:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <23E3DA9AC3C53247AB75359E@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> References: <20110529040800.GA44286@sysmon.tcworks.net> <4DE1EDD8.5050003@FreeBSD.org> <3E1EB5E79BD1A6B775EB8387@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <1D3AFD591C1E756AFAE43572@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <0D1F1853C6DE2ECF75C7ED26@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <23E3DA9AC3C53247AB75359E@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:13:21 +0300 Message-ID: From: George Kontostanos To: Daniel Staal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 30 May 2011 18:13:22 -0000 Could you please post the output of: gpart show On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of May 30, 2011 6:47:32 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to > have said: > > The bootcode should be installed to the drive that you are booting from. >> >> I see that you have: >> >> ada1: >>> 1 freebsd-boot >>> 2 freebsd-swap 8G >>> 3 freebsd-zfs 4G (zil) >>> 4 freebsd-zfs 17G (cache) >>> >>> ada0: Managed by ZFS, ~250G Main filesystem. >>> >> >> I don't think that ada1 holds any OS files therefore you will need to boot >> from ada0 >> >> gpart create -s gpt ada0 >> gpart add -b 34 -s 64k -t freebsd-boot ada0 >> gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0 >> > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > I said that was my preferred partitioning. I had tried others. ;) I just > double-checked putting the bootcode on ada0. It doesn't help. > > (Note that if it did that'd be an interesting regression from 8.2. My home > server is running with *only* the bootcode on one drive, and the OS loaded > from a ZFS RAIDZ array.) > > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- George Kontostanos aisecure.net