Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:26:48 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru> To: Eduardo Lemos de Sa <eduardo.lemosdesa@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to boot from a zfs external disk? Message-ID: <528042d9-0915-8940-753a-3c21fde92d79@passap.ru> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BnjGkvqEW89%2BA0p2vy04TTLJA%2BppgkyP=7uRCoPCW_DHu3y5Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BnjGkvqEW89%2BA0p2vy04TTLJA%2BppgkyP=7uRCoPCW_DHu3y5Q@mail.gmail.com>
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23.08.2017 15:29, Eduardo Lemos de Sa пишет: > Dear > > A year ago, I installed 10.3-RELEASE in a internal notebook hard-drive (zfs > formated, with pool named "zeeroot"). Now, I moved this hard drive to a > case intending use it as a portable FreeBSD machine. In past, this hard > disk was a /dev/ada0 device and now, of course, it assumes a name /dev/da0. > When I tried to boot the initial process is ok, but when partitions an > filesystem are supposed to be mounted, I got a error and a request to > specify from where I want to boot. > When I typed "?" to see avaliable options, I got the result ( a photo took > from my cell phone): > > http://www.quimica.ufpr.br/edulsa/fig-boot-externalharddisk.jpg There is no zfs remnants there. Seems you lack zfs kernel loadable modules. You may add following lines to /boot/loader.conf: --- zfs_load="YES" vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zeeroot" --- Or do the same from boot command line. > I tried several of them including: > > zfs:zeeroot > > Please, could you give some hint about to procedure? > > Thanks in advance for your attention > > Eduardo > > PS.: /dev/ada0 is the actual internal hard disk on the machine wheres I > tried to boot. So, it is not a option HTH -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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