Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:03:21 +1030 From: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@ShaneWare.Biz> To: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>, "Brandon J. Wandersee" <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: help install new kernel on root-on-ZFS on 11-STABLE Message-ID: <8764c713-1204-b780-a80d-3e0e422797bf@ShaneWare.Biz> In-Reply-To: <CAOc73CDewzb_%2B0Ov69ncaEFFKb%2Br6%2BRtu536sF70CcLYK6GfDQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaXkz7XxZqWUk7AOT7sPc0ZDCOHEYjxTRGBcrxn8ur3q=UQ@mail.gmail.com> <864m4cszoa.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <CAOc73CDewzb_%2B0Ov69ncaEFFKb%2Br6%2BRtu536sF70CcLYK6GfDQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 17/10/2016 09:01, Ben Woods wrote: > On Monday, 17 October 2016, Brandon J. Wandersee < > brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Last I checked, the automated installer created a separate pool called >> "bootpool," with a symlink from /boot to /bootpool. >> > > I believe this is the case if the option for full disk encryption is > selected in the installer. This is required until the boot loader is > capable of recognising and accessing a geli encrypted disk. For a "plain" install, /boot is nothing more than a directory created in the root filesystem that will get created during installation. This is the same for UFS and ZFS. I haven't checked during a build but I don't think anything gets installed into /boot before installkernel so you shouldn't expect it to exist before installkernel. As mentioned you can create a separate pool for /boot so you can load the kernel from a non-encrypted filesystem that can then mount the remaining encrypted filesystems. Another alternative setup is using boot environments that would create filesystems as /sys/ROOT/<boot env name> that are then mounted as the root filesystem. Like a plain system the /boot folder would still be created at the installkernel stage. -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Storing Data Shane Ambler
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