From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 30 09:19:06 2009 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 48861106566B for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:19:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oloringr@gmail.com) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5AB68FC08 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:19:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575CCEB51DC for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:55:30 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3738A451D8 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:55:30 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Y9R3QEbxUvFU for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:55:30 +0300 (EEST) Received: from media.localnet (adsl16-129.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.143.129]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0434D45109 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:55:30 +0300 (EEST) From: Ed Jobs To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:55:31 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.30-ARCH; KDE/4.3.0; i686; ; ) References: <4A99D308.6000806@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <4A99D308.6000806@polands.org> X-Face: %5EDs|At1pm>WE%P0}6)Hi*s, JH2J${69~j)R"Yu'^P9R3#fvi{LmpsCzxvX*38/, kxcUd QVrlS0G,}-ll{||\P]; *'Gz`RTG+dzconmNyDY3rJHBmpEJkFj|; %vZO&~T")='B<; 88~[ Cltx6#}N*E MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3010236.ANX5mnkqEg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908301155.32013.oloringr@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Boot from RAIDZ in 8.0-BETA3? 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: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:19:06 -0000 --nextPart3010236.ANX5mnkqEg Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 30 August 2009 04:16, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I'm experimenting with trying to boot from a RAIDZ on 8.0-BETA3 (amd64). > The environment is VMware. I've been googling and reading what I can > on this procedure, which sounds possible, but I have been unable to > successfully get a system up and running with my technique. > > > And this is far as I have been able to get. Can anyone identify what > I'm doing wrong, or overlooking? Pointers to docs, man pages, URLs > appreciated. i'm sure that you have already checked this out, but there is a howto in th= e=20 wiki pages http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRootWithZFSboot i tried this procedure twice on a i386 (once on a vm and once on an actual = pc)=20 and worked. (tho a nasty bug preventedme from keeping my root on zfs) it's about a zpool and not raidz/z2, but i'm pretty sure that the same appl= y=20 to those too. cheers =2D-=20 God, root, what's the difference? --nextPart3010236.ANX5mnkqEg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkqaPoMACgkQBPpdVEWKA30lwQCg44jceTM1ptWC0/uIUPqH5xWY CjwAoMHUxKqDSWhikWN6lBmB0LLMAk9c =6Vc6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3010236.ANX5mnkqEg--