Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:47:58 +0100 From: Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org> To: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS root partition Message-ID: <1281343678.1540.4.camel@x60.lerwick.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik369hGr6arSt6SFYRc8UPPjEYPuqUiNW2GG6k=@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimnM=taU4rNuX51cAiLjWkC1zKNgLYH0xgSRoHB@mail.gmail.com> <201007270945.32010.jhb@freebsd.org> <AANLkTik369hGr6arSt6SFYRc8UPPjEYPuqUiNW2GG6k=@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 16:42 -0700, Rob Farmer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:45 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:40:48 am Rob Farmer wrote: > >> Is is possible to have a ZFS root with sparc64? I've used one of the > >> guides on the wiki, http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot, on > >> amd64 and it worked fine, but that doesn't seem to apply, since the > >> /boot/pmbr and /boot/gptzfsboot files don't exist on sparc64. > > > > Booting from a GPT isn't supported for OpenFirmware, so it doesn't work for > > sparc64. > > Okay, so I looked at some of the non-GPT examples on the > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS page, and they still reference files > that don't exist for sparc64, like /boot/boot and /boot/boot0. I don't > really know much about sparc64 - I bought a cheap box off ebay more as > a curiosity than anything else - what is the proper way to partition > and install a bootloader on sparc64 without sysinstall? Everything I > can find online seems to be i386/amd64 centric. > > Thanks, Confirmed... zfs root with ufs boot works on sparc64, been using it for a while.
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