Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 10:49:29 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: dweimer@dweimer.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Dualboot and ZFS Message-ID: <20180116034929.GB89443@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> In-Reply-To: <a7920f859b666cff48f4f73ee1b2f954@dweimer.net> References: <20180115051308.GA45168@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <VI1PR02MB12007D071EA5398373D2189CF6EB0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <20180115125241.GB60956@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <VI1PR02MB1200C7F0066F361E60A6CBEDF6EB0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <20180115144747.GA65526@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <VI1PR02MB120018D174817F8FFB2981D5F6EB0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <20180115151526.GA66342@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <a7920f859b666cff48f4f73ee1b2f954@dweimer.net>
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Dean E. Weimer wrote: [dd] > > For me, however, running "make installworld DESTDIR=xxx" is also > > installing. Can DESTDIR be a zpool on a MBR/BSD slice? > > You can do an install from source to a zfs dataset no matter where it > exists as that just shows up as any other mount point, but if you want > to be able to boot from it I would suggest making it on a GPT disk. The whole point of my question was to install FreeBSD/ZFS as a second system to a box where Windows/NTFS already occupies one MBR partition and there is another MBR partition for FreeBSD. Do you think there is no such luck? I > checked and there is a section on the wiki > <https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootSlice>; about installing > to MBR, but its flagged as will not boot. "Will not boot"? That is odd because: 1. That's basically the setup Manish suggested (using ada0s3a for zpool), and I think it works for him if he gave this advice. 2. zfsboot(8) is designed for MBR so why would it fail to boot? > By the way the setup I sent was installed by using the live CD, creating But your setup is not dualboot which I was asking about. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859
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