Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s

From: Sevan / Venture37 <venture37_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 23:44:14 +0100
On 08/06/2014 16:33, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> On 17 May 2014 18:55, Sevan / Venture37<venture37_at_gmail.com>  wrote:
>> >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.
> Part 2
> Ran  "zpool labelclear -f ada0" & re-attempted a manual install onto a
> MBR partition from the r265054 AMD64 snapshot I had at BSDCan, system
> boots fine.
> System is now multi-booting again with Windows & OpenBSD across 4 MBR
> partitions.


That should've been "zpool labelclear -f /dev/ada0"

Replaced the SSD in my X61s with a SATA HDD & re-attempted the install 
once more, this time using the root-on-ZFS menu option in the installer. 
It worked without any further intervention.


Sevan / Venture37
Received on Sun Jun 08 2014 - 20:44:18 UTC

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