From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 25 19:02:04 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4369E475 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:02:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from roadkill.tharned.org (roadkill.tharned.org [75.145.12.185]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0676C2C7 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:02:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (rad3.sac.fedex.com [199.81.192.61]) (authenticated bits=0) by roadkill.tharned.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t2PJ1q4F032154 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:02:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from gcr+freebsd-stable@tharned.org) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=tharned.org; s=2014; t=1427310122; bh=P7jEHDAjk9MRTu1uMdMWQkJSFc9w1ftxjzEYdTqHtN0=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=fp1kc384yajc02ZE34icPCx7hYqc1jFSoUNH9jzeN80TU96PfLIKe9OgWhg1qCesr sqDYgqZTkhrNV2KoZ1+7P8oxpvN+QYAyZJrhmS1+F0WF4tl69aVwF3VrMuvzF14ZMC JJj0q9Fq/0IeSzW8i7VyJCca2Koe+mGNuk6GU9fCQTHDovsAL7eo9q6pC/fxYjnbP4 e19YbWtxdavS9GGrGItsF+ENSsx5Ip/mz0IxgCpN8cMpj/PfGxyq6uJSoO7E7vGPOn JydWXHdEZdLEYidEIp8uZC2Vzr1JD+25jQzsgTMW7PgrfmYVYsJZcHUh4MBBxiFbz7 3/UVpONptw3jA== Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:01:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Greg Rivers To: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Booting from ZFS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (roadkill.tharned.org [75.145.12.185]); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:02:02 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:02:04 -0000 On Wed, 25 Mar 2015, Bob Bishop wrote: > Hi, > >> On 25 Mar 2015, at 04:56, Greg Rivers wrote: >> >> I'm trying to build a bootable ZFS system on a USB drive. Using the >> procedure below results in the following error when I try to boot: >> >> gptzfsboot: error 66 LBA 48 >> gptzfsboot: error 66 LBA 1 >> gptzfsboot: No ZFS pools located, can't boot > > Presumably gptzfsboot relies on the BIOS mapping the USB device into a > DOS device. Do you have that support turned on in the BIOS? > I was testing this on a 2010 vintage HP G71 laptop which has no BIOS settings for USB. I didn't think about it being a BIOS issue since it boots gptboot/UFS with no problem. So I tried booting the very same gptzfsboot/ZFS USB drive on a different machine and it boots fine, so I guess it is just a HP BIOS problem. Sorry for the false alarm. -- Greg Rivers