From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 27 23:42:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E8E106566B for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:42:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfarmer@predatorlabs.net) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380348FC12 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws7 with SMTP id 7so4678056vws.13 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:42:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.158.9 with SMTP id d9mr5583695vcx.109.1280274135157; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:42:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.190.198 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:42:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [71.1.135.50] In-Reply-To: <201007270945.32010.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201007270945.32010.jhb@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:42:15 -0700 Message-ID: From: Rob Farmer To: John Baldwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS root partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:42:16 -0000 On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:45 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:40:48 am Rob Farmer wrote: >> Is is possible to have a ZFS root with sparc64? I've used one of the >> guides on the wiki, http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot, on >> amd64 and it worked fine, but that doesn't seem to apply, since the >> /boot/pmbr and /boot/gptzfsboot files don't exist on sparc64. > > Booting from a GPT isn't supported for OpenFirmware, so it doesn't work for > sparc64. Okay, so I looked at some of the non-GPT examples on the http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS page, and they still reference files that don't exist for sparc64, like /boot/boot and /boot/boot0. I don't really know much about sparc64 - I bought a cheap box off ebay more as a curiosity than anything else - what is the proper way to partition and install a bootloader on sparc64 without sysinstall? Everything I can find online seems to be i386/amd64 centric. Thanks, -- Rob Farmer > > -- > John Baldwin >