From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 12:48:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5125C106564A for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:48:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dorionpatrick@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0798FC13 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:48:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadz30 with SMTP id z30so327835qad.13 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:48:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; bh=APYXleKxONhwuagsW3YmwUQq+03Tx67+tvYDjku6H5s=; b=SfiONtvVUkIqgBPgHVbSNsYkpBl0YyJgkfbuPJPQL98m/2rhqOc0I3pF3xwK0lWdiH W1VIYA0zpPI5UAOkkkiGgVV2teZJI39bShi6OBkaAZO4nvJ9uXY5iPmz1/iqHAWckaac lYajNOH9obGrTIBBEpGJakNw97y8BZMoW4RC0= Received: by 10.224.176.4 with SMTP id bc4mr8925448qab.6.1317386904153; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:48:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.5.245] (178-82-252-216-static.colba.net. [216.252.82.178]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gu10sm5381975qab.2.2011.09.30.05.48.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <0BC125B4-A1BA-442B-B498-7A14EE07441C@gmail.com> From: Patrick Dorion To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20110930104643.GB51227@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:48:09 -0400 References: <20110930104643.GB51227@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Subject: Resolved: 'kernel' not found - ZFS on GPT boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:48:25 -0000 Well I am pleased to report that I was successful in booting FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE from a ZFS filesystem on a GPT partition. I followed the guide. I don't believe to have done anything different this time around, aside installing the default boot loader using fdisk. Perhaps there was a conflict, I'm not certain... It works! Thank you all, Patrick Dorion On Sep 30, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-Sep-29 14:22:45 -0400, Patrick Dorion > wrote: >> I would greatly appreciate any input that could shed light on my >> issue. Essentially, a seemingly well-configured ZFS system residing >> on a GPT partition is not detected by zfsloader. > > Your log shows you've correctly used gptzfsloader. > >> Fixit# cd /zpool/boot >> Fixit# ls -l >> drw------- 2 root 0 2 Feb 17 2011 zfs/ >> >> Filesystem was taken from /dist/ on the livefs. All of it is read- >> only except /boot/zfs. > > Do you have /boot/zfs/zpool.cache on zpool? That's the most obvious > item that I don't see in your log. > > I presume you're aware of http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot > If that's not the procedure you followed, you might like to cross- > check the steps fou took against that page. > > -- > Peter Jeremy