From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 23:18:16 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 36B841065678 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 23:18:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gkontos.mail@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB3C28FC1C for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 23:18:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so4830981iwn.13 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 16:18:15 -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=ylWRVYOGjtCdr5jszUbR+US4tIbqoJ+qbO9km8taJao=; b=CUocWQ7y7Di1JQ6ehyLKhzO8G7dIZiHWZtvUCs79MfDt3KXTyjq6hy61SYkiNIClB2 OC/pHR34g7R9GCUksL1OTvhQgPdBqwAhAm20W1yzYRUH6QLNbRPWpXWbXpOvY7qCtP1m FqQzt/se/q1I7Lp/Z0st96skBRNzJSiWnSs74= 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=tzz7GpGiBq5c/zNTcuaifdCjR60DMEI0h+ZCZUFQg/wOUS8tB+4UnZ+lLgqhCiKFcK U37O8hADbokOEqjL5iftyu2orpnfy9+iMO7geL+6cAZ8VuYOCbl/TbuekTfhB7mAstOq tFahyb9N4LRz18mwQsvTwljnTjDHGAF3+k4l8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.28.200 with SMTP id o8mr8263183icc.312.1306797493524; Mon, 30 May 2011 16:18:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.215.42 with HTTP; Mon, 30 May 2011 16:18:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110529040800.GA44286@sysmon.tcworks.net> <4DE1EDD8.5050003@FreeBSD.org> <3E1EB5E79BD1A6B775EB8387@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <4DE3B72F.8030203@digsys.bg> <868vtnub8s.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 02:18:13 +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 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 23:18:16 -0000 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 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