From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Nov 15 21:46:59 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4A5C43627 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:46:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.228]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "cdptpa-oedge", Issuer "cdptpa-oedge" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4769929B for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:46:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from [76.181.114.47] ([76.181.114.47:54659] helo=raspberrypi.bildanet.com) by cdptpa-omsmta03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id F7/4C-04822-B428B285; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:46:51 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.40] (helo=baho-utot.bildanet.com) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1c6lZ4-0000Tp-Py for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:46:50 -0500 Subject: Re: Installing to RAIDZ1 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <0b8556f0-7d92-a4c9-c9e4-62e16e82b936@columbus.rr.com> From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <134e2f09-993e-eed1-2088-c3ecfb617e9a@columbus.rr.com> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:46:50 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0b8556f0-7d92-a4c9-c9e4-62e16e82b936@columbus.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.88:25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:46:59 -0000 On 11/12/16 11:52, Baho Utot wrote: > I want to reinstall my desktop system using a raidz-1 filesystem using > the current installation image for usb drive. Reading the handbook I > find that bsdinstall will not do the installation I want. I am using > 4 1TB drives and I want to partition to 800GB and install the raidz > there. Can I create a raidz storage pool manually and then use > bsdinstall or will I have to manually install freebsd not using > bsdinstall? > > How do I do this? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Ok I got beyond the first part by patching /usr/libexec/bsdintall/zfsboot to create 800GB partitions. Now I have some questions as the zfs raidz-1 on root will not boot from boot0cfg which I installed upon my original setup booting win7 and freebsd 10.0. Will Grub2 boot FreeBSD11 installed on zfs raidz-1? If so can someone give me the scoop on how to do that as I just can not afford to mess that up. It will need to boot Win7, freebsd-10.0 and freebsd-11.0 on zfs raidz-1 I can I move the raidz install to different SATA controllers? or will I need to get down and dirty and fixup the drives in the raidz ? As Always Thanks