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Cc: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>,
	Darren Reed <darrenr@hub.freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: grub, install cd and root-on-zfs
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Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > Considering the amount of work which would be required to allow FreeBSD
> > to boot from ZFS (which you apparently do not appreciate), I perfectly
> > understand Pawel's choice.
> I have already given up on using the FreeBSD boot loader on any system
> except in simple cases. I have had too many issues with the automatic
> re-writing of the boot configuration nuking partition tables, infinite
> chainload looping and whatnot. Nowadays I just keep a grub floppy in all
> my machines and boot off that; that way I know I will always be able to
> boot.

You are confusing boot stages.  Booting from ZFS has nothing to do with
boot0, which is what you are complaining about here.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no