From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 17:04:22 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5BD91065670 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 17:04:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851B08FC0A for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 17:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (Mac-Pro.magehandbook.com [192.168.1.50]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E5C73 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 13:04:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 13:04:20 -0400 From: Daniel Staal To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <23E3DA9AC3C53247AB75359E@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20110529040800.GA44286@sysmon.tcworks.net> <4DE1EDD8.5050003@FreeBSD.org> <3E1EB5E79BD1A6B775EB8387@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <1D3AFD591C1E756AFAE43572@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <0D1F1853C6DE2ECF75C7ED26@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot 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: Mon, 30 May 2011 17:04:22 -0000 --As of May 30, 2011 6:47:32 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to have said: > The bootcode should be installed to the drive that you are booting from. > > I see that you have: > >> ada1: >> 1 freebsd-boot >> 2 freebsd-swap 8G >> 3 freebsd-zfs 4G (zil) >> 4 freebsd-zfs 17G (cache) >> >> ada0: Managed by ZFS, ~250G Main filesystem. > > I don't think that ada1 holds any OS files therefore you will need to boot > from ada0 > > gpart create -s gpt ada0 > gpart add -b 34 -s 64k -t freebsd-boot ada0 > gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0 --As for the rest, it is mine. I said that was my preferred partitioning. I had tried others. ;) I just double-checked putting the bootcode on ada0. It doesn't help. (Note that if it did that'd be an interesting regression from 8.2. My home server is running with *only* the bootcode on one drive, and the OS loaded from a ZFS RAIDZ array.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------