Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:08:05 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk Message-ID: <1256908085.39726.30.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <4AEA94A8.8030104@ish.com.au> References: <4ADE995A.8080009@ish.com.au> <1256174188.2309.22.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4ADFCFF3.1030201@ish.com.au> <790a9fff0910220001m3d7df03j127b51d7d0696271@mail.gmail.com> <4AEA94A8.8030104@ish.com.au>
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On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 18:24 +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > 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 This is what I was saying... This doesn't work on GPT labeled disks. You only need to do this if your BIOS requires it. If you are using -CURRENT, it will be marked active when you install bootcode with gpart. > > 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. He labeled the disks when he created the partitions. See the -l option. Using the actual dev entry or the gptid is fine though. > > 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. What error is reported? robert. > > Ari Maniatis > -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD
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