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Subject: Re: ZFS boot inside on the second partition inside a slice
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On 06/15/11 17:42, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I configured my disk layout according to
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition
> 
> But I swapped the order of the freebsd-zfs and freebsd-swap. The 4.0G
> freebsd-swap partition appears first inside the slice.
> After that, I write zfsboot on both ada0s2 and ada0s2b, but the boot0
> gives me a "Read error".

Where did your second slice start?  There can be a lot of reasons why it
gives Read error.

I personally recommend using GPT scheme instead of MBR, as you have a
dedicated partition for gptzfsboot, which is much cleaner than this
approach.

Cheers,
- -- 
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!	       Live free or die
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