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Subject: Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
From: "Sevan / Venture37" <venture37@gmail.com>
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On 23 April 2014 21:54, Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> wrote:
> If anyone who is having trouble getting ZFS booting on one of these
> Lenovos is going to be at BSDCan, and has a spare disk they are willing
> to let me hack on, I would be interested in trying to get it booting for
> you so we can develop a solution to this issue if there is one. I am
> under the impression the issue is the way gpart does the MBR (or pMBR)
> with respect to the 'active' flag, but there are a number of different
> things i'd like to try.
>
> It all works flawlessly on my T530

I'll be at BSDCan with the laptop, you can see what's up for yourself. :)

Sevan / Venture37