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Date:      Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:31:26 -0500
From:      Lucas Yamanishi <lyamanishi@sesda2.com>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS rootfs  on G5 970MP
Message-ID:  <4F513C2E.30200@sesda2.com>
In-Reply-To: <E4EACD79-0C41-4D15-80F2-4C74965410CC@freebsd.org>
References:  <4F50F579.3000507@sesda2.com> <E4EACD79-0C41-4D15-80F2-4C74965410CC@freebsd.org>

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I have to bring up another machine next week.  I was going to just dd
the disk, but I'll try again if it'll be any help.

Are there any kdb commands I should run when I get there?


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On 03/02/2012 04:13 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>=20
> On Mar 2, 2012, at 10:29 AM, Lucas Yamanishi wrote:
>=20
>> Is it possible?
>>
>> I tried using 9.0-RELEASE.  I followed the UFSBoot guide from the wiki=

>> using a UFS /bootdir slice.  Everything was done to the T.  zfs and
>> opensolaris modules were specified in loader.conf.  Unfortunately when=
 I
>> rebooted I got this error:
>>
>> <pre>
>> Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []...
>> Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 2: unknown file system.
>>
>> Loader variables:
>>  vfs.root.mountfrom=3Dzfs:zroot
>> </pre>
>>
>> At this point I've settled for a UFS root with ZFS /var, /tmp, and /us=
r
>> sub-hierarchies.  Sorry, that means no logs, no kbd.
>=20
> It looks like there's a bug in the ppc64 loader(8) that prevents module=

> preload from working properly. I'll see if I can track it down, but am
> very short on time at the moment (help appreciated).
> -Nathan
>=20


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