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Subject: Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
From: "Sevan / Venture37" <venture37@gmail.com>
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On 17 May 2014 18:55, Sevan / Venture37 <venture37@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Part 2
Ran  "zpool labelclear -f ada0" & re-attempted a manual install onto a
MBR partition from the r265054 AMD64 snapshot I had at BSDCan, system
boots fine.
System is now multi-booting again with Windows & OpenBSD across 4 MBR
partitions.


Sevan / Venture37