From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 10 19:51:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B703A88 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:51:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5943D60 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r2AJpHdv007678; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:51:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) with ESMTP id r2AJpHSZ007675; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:51:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:51:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Cody Ritts Subject: Re: Aligning MBR for ZFS boot help In-Reply-To: <513CE369.4030303@caltel.com> Message-ID: References: <513C1629.50501@caltel.com> <513CD9AB.5080903@caltel.com> <513CE369.4030303@caltel.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:51:18 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:51:20 -0000 On Sun, 10 Mar 2013, Cody Ritts wrote: > Yeah, just for clarity: > >> root@lightning# gpart show da0s1 >> => 0 39068064 da0s1 BSD (18G) >> 0 32 - free - (16k) >> 32 39067648 1 freebsd-zfs (18G) >> 39067680 384 - free - (192k) > > and > >> dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/da0s1 count=1 >> dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/da0s1a skip=1 seek=1024 > > will not boot. But is that putting zfsboot in the right place? Try installing zfsboot with gpart.