Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:32:31 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Howto setup multiboot with GPT? Message-ID: <20090817163230.GA68166@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200908170932.54700.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <147751250284069@webmail117.yandex.ru> <200908170932.54700.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:32:54AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2009 5:07:49 pm Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have installed 8.0-BETA2 amd64 on ZFS root with GPT. I made addition partition and > > made new ZFS pool, builded and installed i386 world and kernel to this pool. > > So, is there some way to select from which partition i want to boot? > > Not currently unless you hardcode a specific partition in /boot.config. (You > may need a patch from jhay@ to fix the parsing of that file though.) I > believe someone (can't recall who) has some changes in a p4 branch to extend > gptboot to support a fancier interface with a menu of possible partitions, > etc. My patch is only for gptboot (ufs partitions). From what I looked at gptzfsboot, it only looks at the first pool. You can boot from different filesystems inside a pool though. You can set that with zpool set bootfs=pool/dataset John -- John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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