From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 30 07:24:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3E1106568B for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:24:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (eth5921.nsw.adsl.internode.on.net [59.167.240.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA108FC16 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:24:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-149.ish.com.au ([203.29.62.149]:52808) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N3lwI-0005Jq-1A; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:30:26 +1100 Message-ID: <4AEA94A8.8030104@ish.com.au> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:24:24 +1100 From: Aristedes Maniatis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091025 Shredder/3.0pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scot Hetzel References: <4ADE995A.8080009@ish.com.au> <1256174188.2309.22.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4ADFCFF3.1030201@ish.com.au> <790a9fff0910220001m3d7df03j127b51d7d0696271@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0910220001m3d7df03j127b51d7d0696271@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:24:30 -0000 On 22/10/09 6:01 PM, Scot Hetzel wrote: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS > > If anyone notices a problem with them, either let me know or update > the wiki page. I've got some problems when following your instructions (http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror ) 1. gpart set -a active -i 1 ad0 This throws an error: gpart: attrib active: device not configured 2. zpool create zroot mirror /dev/gpt/disk0 /dev/gpt/disk1 Those devices don't exist. /dev/ad8p3 exists and can be used. But there isn't even a /dev/gpt directory. 3. cd /dist/8.0-20090628-SNAP and then install base, catpages, etc We are using 8.0-RC2 and those folders do not exist in that location. Instead /dist contains a regular FreeBSD intallation, not install packages on the Fixit CD. Unfortunately when we work around all the above issues, the resulting installed system will not boot from the ZFS drives. Ari Maniatis -- --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A