From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 10:19:52 2007 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 817F516A419; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 10:19:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C969C13C4AA; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 10:19:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-47-121.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.47.121]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l96AJmU4037569 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 19:49:48 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 19:49:37 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <124F2247-634C-4796-B69C-2920FA8326F5@ish.com.au> <47073894.6080205@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47073894.6080205@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1313931.30n4E9ydc4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200710061949.46007.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Aristedes Maniatis Subject: Re: Installing a system onto ZFS 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: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:19:52 -0000 --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--