Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 13:55:59 -0400 From: "Sevan / Venture37" <venture37@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s Message-ID: <CA%2BU3Mf7HdumxH5YAp-Maseyw=Ah6tPHcXGbKxY0tdX=FWMFffQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BU3Mf4St%2BsUJpR6m4E4NUQP=Hmk_LFyQg5vSC8QqcxBNuitXw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BU3Mf6w-Af2H1uJtfLzvKwYc%2BFmTfHvupSU_Z7WCFrHcWTV4g@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BK5SrPErbbJiYDCs7be15ZU1j89s2Hpaa0kLPmj8dUkTyyKGA@mail.gmail.com> <53582881.9020301@allanjude.com> <CA%2BU3Mf4St%2BsUJpR6m4E4NUQP=Hmk_LFyQg5vSC8QqcxBNuitXw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2 May 2014 12:14, Sevan / Venture37 <venture37@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 April 2014 21:54, Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> wrote: >> If anyone who is having trouble getting ZFS booting on one of these >> Lenovos is going to be at BSDCan, and has a spare disk they are willing >> to let me hack on, I would be interested in trying to get it booting for >> you so we can develop a solution to this issue if there is one. I am >> under the impression the issue is the way gpart does the MBR (or pMBR) >> with respect to the 'active' flag, but there are a number of different >> things i'd like to try. >> >> It all works flawlessly on my T530 > > I'll be at BSDCan with the laptop, you can see what's up for yourself. :) For archaeological reasons, the X61s was able to boot using ZFS on a BSD partition scheme (Thanks to Allen), the system can also boot from a ZFS volume with a MBR partition scheme if you *do not* use the stock FreeBSD boot loader & switch to GRUB, this was tested by doing a stock install of PCBSD 10.0-RELEASE. Sevan / Venture37
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