From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 1 09:57:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0914106564A for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:57:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from villa.alberto@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f212.google.com (mail-ew0-f212.google.com [209.85.219.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1C68FC14 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:57:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from villa.alberto@gmail.com) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so4227086ewy.43 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:57:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1G4scGNqSUSl2yuHeG6MQ2pjaReBNOmBplQGiKhLpA8=; b=ffVTzaHQSRTvIGKnUsmX9pD+MnRiOX9cGcRzNj3OjCJT7QPZM1EwEGKRD4205Ckfue aKesBJSYNMJCj8KnveKdonWpd4PRynsyrblkJPSQe/4xkpBxBfTf7gbpGuesBcBhpOgJ cT38UuM+5kJhxWXtQLFEpxjZueZJxM9XQv+2Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VY78xmJllw1FTngpfHzW0SjZXmS9LqyPZS4JFB9TOuG+42mJ0n2R5AFFBramZfIpuN 50gTHcdewQiYKkO6kKANiaQZnSExAli9dNKA6kEyaPjJIMj0H0lY7dIzhKzGswIM+TW1 3GJPJcOpY+CEJpiHsNXF1/mBHSaXT82BV3sMg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.30.10 with SMTP id d10mr1425602ebd.5.1243850267454; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:57:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <29579856-69F7-4CDC-A52A-B414A40180ED@yellowspace.net> <4A1B0B4F.1020106@h3q.com> <18972.5870.795005.186542@already.dhcp.gene.com> <4A1C18CC.7080902@icyb.net.ua> <18972.7173.216763.407615@already.dhcp.gene.com> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 11:57:47 +0200 Message-ID: From: Alberto Villa To: Lorenzo Perone Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mickael MAILLOT , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: ZFS booting without partitions (was: ZFS boot on zfs mirror) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:57:49 -0000 On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Lorenzo Perone wrote: > the result is, when choosing the disk with the zfs boot > sectors in it (in my case F5, which goes to ad6), the kernel > is not found. the console shows: > > forth not found > definitions not found > only not found > (the above repeated several times) > > can't load 'kernel' > > and I get thrown to the loader prompt. > lsdev does not show any ZFS devices. same here on 7-stable (csupped yesterday) i've followed the same steps, but i've used gpt as explained in the first mail. the same exact steps worked perfectly on 8-current in virtualbox -- Alberto Villa