From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 22:44:18 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 71FE5F63 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2014 22:44:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x231.google.com (mail-wg0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::231]) (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 04A042FFD for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2014 22:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id m15so5117474wgh.32 for ; Sun, 08 Jun 2014 15:44:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PiVAm/RTIbs3Jq3wsKnGRZWefrnRsew3ondIPAhEAfc=; b=MC1r2eKQ1A8/OfKb+t5qNG5VOxhSL7nUK48ghMsHhetjqQZUP9E8pRZWjl4wlbDc1Q 1SSDlDyDXeUHw5ED6qFgg3Q+NdwYQ57b1GNghU8pE/ICmNCYt7JMqcTGw/wQ9/mSeL74 G3LbMZX1CCQULIuUFM5DN13S6BKDtmJ0SV7UKuAvD1IB3DpzUXxWRSTQZ/8RIqreJOFJ VG1LH4S7cBGYcefCXJ1fcpLgfOLJHy4fvWzKyMv+qHyZ9VSx5C42Wi+BThp9rF8Z0ZJ2 fS1HTAH6Hgnf8gUYrkF09ZQxBeZED1oC6PZ4OnEBP+RIqgphoFAjswK/t1GJKxDZdkmx r02Q== X-Received: by 10.180.8.40 with SMTP id o8mr15292154wia.41.1402267456311; Sun, 08 Jun 2014 15:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Sevans-MacBook-Pro.local (89-168-138-254.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com. [89.168.138.254]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id hi6sm22333952wjc.32.2014.06.08.15.44.14 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 08 Jun 2014 15:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5394E73E.7070509@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 23:44:14 +0100 From: Sevan / Venture37 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current Subject: Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s References: <53582881.9020301@allanjude.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 22:44:18 -0000 On 08/06/2014 16:33, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: > On 17 May 2014 18:55, Sevan / Venture37 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. That should've been "zpool labelclear -f /dev/ada0" Replaced the SSD in my X61s with a SATA HDD & re-attempted the install once more, this time using the root-on-ZFS menu option in the installer. It worked without any further intervention. Sevan / Venture37