From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 28 23:32:37 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 DE79F106566C for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:32:37 +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 7D1858FC0A for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:32:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so8435037vws.13 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:32:34 -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=j3uOYAWRgyqnujrrUu21JmIiM66PsRfl/Im1FH6dVK0=; b=cujHo0dodyvh28dT1foQKszyLrMfEEVPOvMAImIFARliOx/k3Hs7T4qRIvyXJGlt6m cGdjfl9/wIgdCZiCaPlCtfbuwnI9wESlauG2w2Ep1FBruyfmF1jeHTIMlY7q4DhAqJXN 1A6CYzDjFxKx82ZHlc03oQXYjPShYjNgG5sFs= 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=SvvjbIV5RLcBHXGg+YUgFSR/uwcwV7PTfDPSGyj7pf4qigIJwMNp3MNSIbzJe0cnVk Gg/cTmgGQp+XcQnNF8lbN10KDwjMdX9haNzZ1XRbK26MGoT1FRtXE/klYu/iUmVI2jSC 1HoqhDITBgf2wCLKKw3ez9fZOKMLRBCUDGXF4= Received: by 10.220.47.84 with SMTP id m20mr3369762vcf.90.1277767954016; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:32:34 -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 v40sm2396731vcr.19.2010.06.28.16.32.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C29310F.2060304@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:32:31 -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> <4C292FE2.3060605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C292FE2.3060605@gmail.com> 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 23:32:38 -0000 On 6/28/10 7:27 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > 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'." I quoted the wrong sentence - you don't need _this_ step. >> >> 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