Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:10:01 -0500 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: Mailinglists FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ok How do I boot this monster? Message-ID: <222fccf6-f049-601c-02ba-d4d9a92ef176@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1611171651020.67199@wonkity.com> References: <07218d20-34a5-171b-f6a8-de3c271733cc@columbus.rr.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1611171215010.67199@wonkity.com> <575baf45-b23d-163f-79b0-213a6ba51c91@columbus.rr.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1611171651020.67199@wonkity.com>
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On 11/17/16 19:04, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Baho Utot wrote: > >> >> >> On 11/17/16 14:19, Warren Block wrote: >>> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Baho Utot wrote: >>> >>>> Ok I have installed 11.0 latest memstick image. >>>> >>>> I patched/hacked bsdinstall ( /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/zfsboot) to >>>> install my zfs raidz2 using 800GB partitions. And it even worked! >>>> >>>> Now I need to boot this monster as well as my current 10.0 version >>>> until I can build my desktop upon the raidz, then I will >>>> decommission the 10.0 version when the 11.0 version is up to snuff. >>>> >>>> I have boot0 install to ada0 which boots win7 and 10.0 freebsd. >>>> >>>> Can this also boot the raidz? >>> >>> No, boot0 is MBR-only. The easiest way I see to do this is to >>> install gptzfsboot bootcode to the ZFS drives and choose one of them >>> from the BIOS boot menu. Grub can multi-boot GPT also, although it >>> needs a small partition of its own. >> >> I think the bsdinstall puts that code onto the zfs drives already or >> am I miss informed? >> >> Would creating the raidz on MBR partitions be an answer? > > That might actually work. Too much work, and too much a step > backwards for me. > >> Is there a HowTo that shows me how to setup grub if so I have some >> space left on the drives so I can give grub what it needs. > > If you have any reasonably standard machine from the last decade or > so, there is a keypress on boot to choose a boot device. This might > have been disabled, but then could be re-enabled. For quality > home-builder motherboards like Gigabyte, it's F12. For quality > prebuilt systems like Dell, it's usually F12. > > For HP... it could be pretty much anything. F10, F9, Esc. Anything, > really, except F12. Does anyone know if ports/sysutils/grub2 works? I found some old posts on the net that is saying that it has some problems building and installing under FreeBSD. It might be a solution for me as I really don't want to do the hit the keyboard at boot thing Thanks
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