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Subject: bootcode capable of booting both UFS and ZFS?
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Subject says it all really, is this an option at this time?

we'd like to try boot the main zfs root partition and then fall back 
to a small UFS based recovery partition.. is that possible?

I know we could use grub but I'd prefer keep it in the family.