From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 22:31:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9995106566C; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:31:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from mail.mroute.net (lax-gw03.mailroute.net [199.89.0.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCEF08FC0A; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:31:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lax-gw03.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E9C5633D7E; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:31:39 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by lax-gw03.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBCE1633D46; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:31:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B7F692698; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:31:38 -0700 (PDT) From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: FreeBSD Questions Cc: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <21D3DE2D-2C1E-4C7B-860E-C637C746150A@forsythia.net> <86lj0j9cwd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <86hbb6aply.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <78E237A573166F9C62551A78@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.18.3.11; tzolkin = 5 Chuen; haab = 4 Cumku Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:31:38 -0700 In-Reply-To: <78E237A573166F9C62551A78@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> (Daniel Staal's message of "Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:40:53 -0500") Message-ID: <864o76abzp.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:31:40 -0000 >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Staal writes: Daniel> Nothing in the release notes appears to mention the bootloader and zfs Daniel> together, so I'd take the safe approach and assume it is still Daniel> necessary. OK, so I'll appeal to the rest of freebsd-questions, since you can't answer with authority: can you upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2 using freebsd-update booting from ZFS as described at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/, without having to go through the chicanry described at http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=94557&postcount=19 - or is there an updated version of that post, or should that post be literally followed? SOMEONE here knows. Please help. Otherwise, I have to build a VM system again with 8.1, just like I did with 8.0, to figure out that 8.1 would NOT upgrade cleanly, and required that extra step. Please save me the trouble for 8.1 to 8.2. I have four VPSs that need to move from 8.1 to 8.2 remotely. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion