From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 28 15:44:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784F710657B2 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:44:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD1E8FC08 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 061E846B91; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:44:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E438E8A03C; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:44:26 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Rob Farmer Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:38:40 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100217; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201007270945.32010.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201007281138.40858.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:44:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS root partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:44:28 -0000 On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:42:15 pm Rob Farmer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:45 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:40:48 am Rob Farmer wrote: > >> Is is possible to have a ZFS root with sparc64? I've used one of the > >> guides on the wiki, http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot, on > >> amd64 and it worked fine, but that doesn't seem to apply, since the > >> /boot/pmbr and /boot/gptzfsboot files don't exist on sparc64. > > > > Booting from a GPT isn't supported for OpenFirmware, so it doesn't work for > > sparc64. > > Okay, so I looked at some of the non-GPT examples on the > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS page, and they still reference files > that don't exist for sparc64, like /boot/boot and /boot/boot0. I don't > really know much about sparc64 - I bought a cheap box off ebay more as > a curiosity than anything else - what is the proper way to partition > and install a bootloader on sparc64 without sysinstall? Everything I > can find online seems to be i386/amd64 centric. Yes, I think all of the ZFS for / stuff for FreeBSD is for i386/amd64. I don't think we have boot support for ZFS for any other platforms currently. -- John Baldwin