From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 5 03:34:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C6016A41F for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 03:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4037413C45E for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 03:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) id l65342Dt063787; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:04:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:04:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Thomas Backman Message-ID: <20070705030402.GE1289@dan.emsphone.com> References: <21030091-F8DD-4787-9B36-6951381638A7@exscape.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21030091-F8DD-4787-9B36-6951381638A7@exscape.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: Everything (but /boot) on ZFS - trouble X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:34:06 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 04), Thomas Backman said: > The FreeBSD wiki entry (http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot) is either > outdated or incomplete; or it's just that I have no clue... > In either case, the guide tells me to create a "boot" symlink on the new > partition, but I already have such a file (/boot/boot, not a link): > [root@devil ~]# file /boot/boot > /boot/boot: x86 boot sector; partition 4: ID=0xa5, active, starthead 0, > startsector 0, 50000 sectors, code offset 0x3c, reserved sectors 0, Media > descriptor 0x0, reserved 0x16, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x1f) > > What to do? I have no idea if this file is needed or not, and how to > proceed. Input is welcome. BTW, I'm new to FreeBSD-CURRENT, and also > quite inexperienced with mailing lists, so be gentle. :) You should use option two described on that page: zfsroot mounted on /, with a boot->bootvol/boot symlink ufs filesystem on /bootvol with boot files in a "boot" subdirectory I sent an email to Pawel last week talking about this problem, but it doesn't look like he's changed the wiki page yet. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com