Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:19:27 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Ed Jobs <oloringr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot from RAIDZ in 8.0-BETA3? Message-ID: <d36406630908300719x23e67a99l3b379b6959274e32@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200908301155.32013.oloringr@gmail.com> References: <4A99D308.6000806@polands.org> <200908301155.32013.oloringr@gmail.com>
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2009/8/30 Ed Jobs <oloringr@gmail.com> > 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. > > > <snip> > > > > 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 > the > 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) > 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 > apply > to those too. > > cheers > > -- > God, root, what's the difference? > Not sure if its required but you dont seem to be setting the bootfs paramenter on the zpool. Also in theory dump/restore should work, I would feel safer doing it with rsync or cp.
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