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Subject: Re: Aligning MBR for ZFS boot help
From: Chris Ross <cross+freebsd@distal.com>
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On Mar 10, 2013, at 16:36 , Cody Ritts <cr@caltel.com> wrote:
> I have never seen ANY reference to installing the /boot/zfsboot with =
gpart.  And if you look at how that ZFS boot code is installed, it is =
not like any of the other boot codes that gpart does install.  I dont =
even know how you would construct the syntax.  the bootcode arguments =
seem to be GPT and MBR specific, and mutually exclusive.

  This is a sparc64 reference, but it does install /boot/zfsboot with =
gpart.  FYI.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2012-July/008489.html

                   - Chris