From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 5 20:21:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2345B167 for ; Sun, 5 May 2013 20:21:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from tux-cave.hellug.gr (tux-cave.hellug.gr [195.134.99.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8667ECEA for ; Sun, 5 May 2013 20:21:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Status: No X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.9, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_00 -1.90) X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-ID: r45KLCvx022839 Received: from giorgos.local.local (217-162-217-29.dynamic.hispeed.ch [217.162.217.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by tux-cave.hellug.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r45KLCvx022839 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 5 May 2013 23:21:20 +0300 From: keramida@freebsd.org (Giorgos Keramidas) To: David Demelier Subject: Re: ZFS on MBR does not boot at all References: Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 22:20:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: (David Demelier's message of "Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:29:18 +0200") Message-ID: <67um8rwqrdrxes.fsf@saturn.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 20:21:33 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:29:18 +0200, David Demelier wrote: > 2013/4/18 David Demelier : >> Hello, >> I would like to use ZFS over MBR for multiboot purposes. I've followed >> that guide https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition but it >> does not boot at all. The loader does not show up after choosing >> FreeBSD in the boot0 loader. >> >> The _ prompt appears but nothing starts. I've found many people over >> the web having the same problem but unfortunately no one found a >> solution. >> >> I think the offensive commands are ones with dd and zfsboot. >> Regards, > > So someone told me on IRC that the main problem was that I've put my > partition swap as first partition in the FreeBSD slice and zfsboot > *requires* that the zfs partition is the first. > > Can someone with right access to the wiki page may add a notice about > this issue on https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition > please? Hi David, Thanks for following up with what the real problem was. I updated the Wiki to include this: Note that partition order is important. It seems that zfsboot requires the freebsd-zfs partition to be the first, so make sure you add if first, before your swap partition. Cheers, Giorgos --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAlGGvycACgkQ1g+UGjGGA7b4aQCgmP4RY/MiF+TU5wb/PqdiYSE7 KvMAoINt7AtWCpTsqldsHDkexrPWX3dj =HRSQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--