From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 22 10:33:32 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9AED62 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:33:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ukaszg@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qc0-f173.google.com (mail-qc0-f173.google.com [209.85.216.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37695400 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:33:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f173.google.com with SMTP id b12so205940qca.18 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:33:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FX72oA0zlsXe1X16czREERQZ4W7aPWsYgHamZZUSE/0=; b=jmmXTQV9ZTl8R7Z8zrV6/gtbnESCik8mpJmRXr7SO8VJq5KKOh7zSu/ZpTabnlvRQZ 9m3omHTqv5OFlwMb5keVmRCUp0x8KcxPhuuuIH86QffeKVxgJt58vrONHI4knU8m9Owq wLvamYN0wXvYbIg/0A7wibuxUNgc+yc8HjFQcBz/xJO9gLu/kx43VBgIIMvx79wxDniX mKn4y0Evvx7FU1DwJrBjzJW3zAV/FSSabHKDhM2Ggxdl7QVYbSS17LLwRLK5GE0OgBvy oIzdpO7HoWzP0yRq+HoM9ITbNUUGhqcKUqTYyg5th26MmEayZ4tPpUBubCQxE7M5mn0F 92UQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.175.198 with SMTP id bb6mr772087qab.96.1361529211434; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:33:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.26.169 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:33:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:33:31 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Root on zfs (stable9) - how to make it bootable From: uki To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:33:32 -0000 Hi, I want to install freebsd9 (stable) on zfs root, unfortunately my bios is unable to recognize GPT discs. I'm using MBR disc, with BSD slice (on mbr index 4) containing freebsd-zfs filesystem. I've no idea how to make it bootable, I've tried using: zpool export sys dd if=3D/boot/zfsboot of=3D/dev/ada0s4 count=3D1 dd if=3D/boot/zfsboot of=3D/dev/ada0s4a skip=3D1 seek=3D1024 zpool import sys When I select F4 (slice with zfs) whilst booting the computer just turns of= f. How do I make it boot? Do I need freebsd-boot slice? I have set bootfs property on pool, and added vfs.root.mountfrom to loader.= conf. Cheers, =C5=81ukasz Gruner