Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 20:04:58 +0400 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> Subject: Re: boot from ZFS: which pool types use? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307042000130.2446@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <51D59AAD.3030208@FreeBSD.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307041424030.2446@woozle.rinet.ru> <51D56066.1020902@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307041552031.2446@woozle.rinet.ru> <51D577A9.1030304@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307041952030.2446@woozle.rinet.ru> <51D59AAD.3030208@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >>>>> Can't find /boot/zfsloader > >>>> > >>>> Does this file exist in the filesystem pointed to by bootfs property (if > >>>> set)? > >>> > >>> Arghh!!! I missed to set this one (however, this is the only zfs pool on the > >>> machine -- shouldn't the loader assume it is safe to try to boot off?) > >>> > >>> Regarding your other questions: > >> > >> That's weird. On all my machines I always set only vfs.root.mountfrom in > >> /boot/loader.conf to point to dataset containing root fs. > > > > In my last case, this was not enough. > > > > And this is redundant if bootfs is correctly set. However: setting this in boot.loader (or manually in loader prompt) is not enough to have bootable system And this, I suppose, could be attacked to reduce possibility of user-configuration errors: not having a possibility to point at loader is a bit disappointing, you see ;) -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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