From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 18 00:04:36 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03EC2C47D6F for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A96F7A88 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:04:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id uAI04V05024205 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:04:31 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id uAI04ViP024202; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:04:31 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:04:31 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Baho Utot cc: Mailinglists FreeBSD Subject: Re: Ok How do I boot this monster? In-Reply-To: <575baf45-b23d-163f-79b0-213a6ba51c91@columbus.rr.com> Message-ID: References: <07218d20-34a5-171b-f6a8-de3c271733cc@columbus.rr.com> <575baf45-b23d-163f-79b0-213a6ba51c91@columbus.rr.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.1 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:04:32 -0700 (MST) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:04:36 -0000 On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Baho Utot wrote: > > > On 11/17/16 14:19, Warren Block wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Baho Utot wrote: >> >>> Ok I have installed 11.0 latest memstick image. >>> >>> I patched/hacked bsdinstall ( /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/zfsboot) to install >>> my zfs raidz2 using 800GB partitions. And it even worked! >>> >>> Now I need to boot this monster as well as my current 10.0 version until I >>> can build my desktop upon the raidz, then I will decommission the 10.0 >>> version when the 11.0 version is up to snuff. >>> >>> I have boot0 install to ada0 which boots win7 and 10.0 freebsd. >>> >>> Can this also boot the raidz? >> >> No, boot0 is MBR-only. The easiest way I see to do this is to install >> gptzfsboot bootcode to the ZFS drives and choose one of them from the BIOS >> boot menu. Grub can multi-boot GPT also, although it needs a small >> partition of its own. > > I think the bsdinstall puts that code onto the zfs drives already or am I > miss informed? > > Would creating the raidz on MBR partitions be an answer? That might actually work. Too much work, and too much a step backwards for me. > Is there a HowTo that shows me how to setup grub if so I have some space left > on the drives so I can give grub what it needs. If you have any reasonably standard machine from the last decade or so, there is a keypress on boot to choose a boot device. This might have been disabled, but then could be re-enabled. For quality home-builder motherboards like Gigabyte, it's F12. For quality prebuilt systems like Dell, it's usually F12. For HP... it could be pretty much anything. F10, F9, Esc. Anything, really, except F12.