Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 02:18:13 +0300 From: George Kontostanos <gkontos.mail@gmail.com> To: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot Message-ID: <BANLkTi=c7pugDPuGytKfhAG3WjGA4jGZyA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <A0ADB466B9800C8DD9110826@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> References: <C3447024DA2BEB7DA3063584@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20110529040800.GA44286@sysmon.tcworks.net> <4DE1EDD8.5050003@FreeBSD.org> <BANLkTim7U0d_oJB9P41OTgjPH5-gi7OxbA@mail.gmail.com> <3E1EB5E79BD1A6B775EB8387@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <4DE3B72F.8030203@digsys.bg> <BANLkTi=9J2i3MzQMPEbedr-p=A9-ui9Epg@mail.gmail.com> <868vtnub8s.fsf@gmail.com> <BANLkTikn7zfH5hbOg_1uRmBUBvDQ-3hqFQ@mail.gmail.com> <A0ADB466B9800C8DD9110826@mac-pro.magehandbook.com>
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oops typos, typos! That's one of the bad things that happens when you type without having the copy - paste functionality. On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> wrote: > --As of May 31, 2011 1:21:49 AM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to > have said: > > Bingo! That did it. I will update the guide soon. >> >> @Daniel my apologies it seems that another typo is preventing you from >> booting. You have to set the bootfs in the pool. >> >> zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot >> > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > I'd actually caught that one... (Yesterday afternoon.) > > I was hoping this was something people had seen before. At this point, > I've been trying to get a FreeBSD+ZFS install on this box for about a month > - including spending much of my first vacation in two years on it - and I > know that even if I do manage to do so I'll still have a problem with the > screen resolution. (Sandy Bridge integrated graphics. It works in VERSA > mode, but doesn't detect the native mode.) > > I've decided to call it quits for now. A current Linux runs fine. The > power management isn't as good as FreeBSD, I'm loosing the ZFS coolness, and > the other advantages of a FreeBSD box over Linux, but it means I've got a > working laptop for the moment. I'll revisit putting FreeBSD on it sometime > in the future, once the hardware isn't quite so current-edge. For now, I've > invested too much time into just getting this running. > > George, a couple other notes on your walkthrough: (I'd decided to wait > until I was done to go over all of these.) > cd /tmp && copy -R * /boot # Needs to be cp. > zpool create -O mountpoint=/mnt zroot /dev/gpt/disk0 # Will avoid the > export/import later. > > And in theory it doesn't make *much* difference, but setting the checksum > before creating usr, var, and tmp is slightly better practice. (The > directory entries are checksummed as well, which would be the only > difference. If any files were created in between they'd get the fletcher2 > checksum.) > > > 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. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > -- George Kontostanos aisecure.net <http://www.aisecure.net>;
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