Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 19:49:37 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Subject: Re: Installing a system onto ZFS Message-ID: <200710061949.46007.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <47073894.6080205@FreeBSD.org> References: <124F2247-634C-4796-B69C-2920FA8326F5@ish.com.au> <47073894.6080205@FreeBSD.org>
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--nextPart1313931.30n4E9ydc4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Stefan Esser wrote: > What I do is install a minimal system into the UFS root (ad4s1a or > whatever, to become the boot partition). Then I create the ZFS > volumes from within, mounted on a temporary mount-point and copy > over the whole contents of the minimum installation. After that, I > fix the fstab entry in ZFS and prepare mounting of the boot partition > on a directory in the ZFS root (fstab, mount point). Finally, I add > the boot_from entry to /boot/loader.conf (on the boot partition). Have you tried making a FreeSBIE disk? (USB or CDROM) and booting off=20 that? Doing so will give you a complete multiuser system which you can then=20 install the system for real. I have done some work with this but the latest motherboard I got for=20 testing with causes BTX to blow up. I have tried 2 patches.. http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/realbtx.2.patch which fix it on the Supermicro P8SCT but not for the C2SBA (it spins=20 writing register dumps and I haven't taken a picture of it yet..) Note that sysinstall does not work very well as an installer if it is=20 not run as init (by design really) as it will only modify the FreeSBIE=20 stuff rather than the disk you want to install on. You could use it for=20 partitioning disks although if you're using ZFS I guess not :) One problem I have seen with those patches is that the loader appears to=20 think a key has been pressed and pauses the count down when none have,=20 I haven't had time to look at it though. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1313931.30n4E9ydc4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHB2FB5ZPcIHs/zowRAtu6AJ0U3yhx/BzN6GgtgswLC8svjsZk0ACaAulF 7347BWPtLYy/nclmEZyu6Q4= =H5pm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1313931.30n4E9ydc4--
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