From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 28 23:27:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4011065673 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:27:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B94F8FC17 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:27:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so8428774vws.13 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:27:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yhua4WKsl5jOy8IdGAUDj/QsHF/6CffueJp5mtDyRHc=; b=pJktxPciUMcPlZnaK7g/+x7K+KqAaQhfl0lBYV2rb/bYjPzhSA+m5vRHPHeo1T7Gpm LaeKfL2158ldxLMNfhIoAEhYpGCn3rDMi7zJmxI51/vPW6U7e8tiafYMXxYQ2Ggt0Gnb /SHn7XNYx+6lOVvzg9qFo9H9EUlwCwKPXzQJw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Esnpx3WDLgL0VJJYl6IZQu0ihU1ZveAEEP4ybiYqRxuUvsFzFjXHmQIYbrKLciITXt OjaGRo4JYv5DPwAOAbR0FVMAPlCe/Eu1aZb7xJeA+KvPZamxsr1GVB1QH6Of0pQhzGUK WhPxa+g5Y2Cy2nRbvro2WVWjRzXyKMlCjsapk= Received: by 10.220.125.83 with SMTP id x19mr2295732vcr.211.1277767654622; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (c-71-230-240-241.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.230.240.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m9sm6362491vcz.17.2010.06.28.16.27.31 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C292FE2.3060605@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:27:30 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan D Niles References: <1277759639.28118.23.camel@jane.spg.more.net> In-Reply-To: <1277759639.28118.23.camel@jane.spg.more.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot to ZFS on FreeBSD 7.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:27:36 -0000 On 6/28/10 5:13 PM, Dan D Niles wrote: > > The release notes for FreeBSD 7.3 said that it could boot to zfs. I did > not see any options for doing that via the normal install. I followed > the instructions here: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot > > When I reboot, I get: > > can't load 'kernel' > > I wiped the disk and tried again to verify I didn't miss a step. Same > result. > > I saw a suggestion that zfs.cache needed to be copied. I did that > during the setup, but I tried doing it again from Fixit. Same result. You don't need this step for 7.3. > The other suggestion I saw was to do section 2 step 7 "again." That > shouldn't be necessary for 7.3, but I tried it anyway. Still seeing > "can't load 'kernel'." > > Any suggestions for getting FreeBSD 7.3 to boot to ZFS? > Can you try the following at the loader prompt, where you see the FreeBSD boot options? load zfs load opensolaris # should not be necessary, but just to be safe boot Regards, -- Glen Barber