From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 05:00:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F9E1065672 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:00:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gautham@lisphacker.org) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DE78FC12 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so3280740vws.13 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:00:25 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.164.168 with SMTP id yr8mr8229357vdb.16.1298869223559; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:00:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.52.166.193 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:00:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20110227002604.92530@gmx.com> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:00:23 +0000 Message-ID: From: Gautham Ganapathy To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Daniel Staal , Slawomir Wojtczak Subject: Re: ROOT on ZFS with MBR partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:00:26 -0000 On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of February 27, 2011 12:26:04 AM +0000, Slawomir Wojtczak is alleged= to > have said: > >> ... but none of them seems to work, after installation it hangs at boot >> like that: http://ompldr.org/vN2tscQ > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > Hmm. =A0Interesting. =A0I'm having the same result when trying the 'root = on ZFS, > boot from UFS' guide here: > > > Anything interesting happening during your install? =A0I have an error la= te in > the process (During 'Step 3.1') with this command: > Fixit# mv boot bootdir/ > > It gives me an error saying that /bin/cp can't found/executed. =A0(I've b= een > trying to work around using `bin/cp -pRP boot bootdir/`. =A0Note the lack= of > the leading slash.) > > I had tried several of the other installs from > successfully, but I don't think I'd > tried the MBR install. > > Daniel T. Staal > I had the same problem. Today, I tried using the PCBSD dvd to install FreeBSD on ZFS (with /boot on UFS). It kept giving errors just before completion. However, some comments I found while googling about that problem mentioned that the installation seemed to have completed, which seems to be the case. Both FreeBSD and FreeDOS are now installed on the same drive (in a VM, I'll try this on real h/w next). Still not sure what caused the error during installation though. Regards Gautham Ganapathy