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From: "Mark Powell" <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Removing all ZFS support from boot process
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Christian Walther wrote:

> AFAIK if you have gptzfsboot on your drives it will probe the
> partitions on your drives, which can take a while. So if you suspect
> ZFS it might really be an option to replace gptzfsboot with gptboot.

   I have ufs / so isn't /boot/boot (loaded from slice start) in operation 
during this crash?
   Thanks.

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