Re: Has anyone been able to actually boot the AMD64 kernel after r194958?

On Jul 1, 2009, at 04:23 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:

> Hi Current,
>
>    I was wondering.. Has anyone actually been able to boot a kernel  
> after r194958? On 2 different machine (simmilar archecture) the  
> system will kernel-trap right after attemping to mount the ZFS  
> filesystems. I dont know if it is ZFS related or not as I am not  
> able to get a core. It complains that no dump device has been  
> defined and then locks up...
>
>    If there is a way that I can provide more information, please let  
> me know how and I will post it.
>
> Thanks again,
> Peg
I tried this after reading this thread, and no problems whatsoever.  
gptzfsboot.

[root_at_clone ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD clone.exscape.org 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #3 r195244M:  
Wed Jul  1 23:03:10 CEST 2009     root_at_clone.exscape.org:/usr/obj/usr/ 
src/sys/DTRACE  amd64
[root_at_clone ~]# df -h
Filesystem                       Size    Used   Avail Capacity   
Mounted on
rpool                            7.5G    461M    7.0G     6%    /
devfs                            1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
rpool/tmp                        7.0G     10M    7.0G     0%    /tmp
rpool/usr                        9.3G    2.2G    7.0G    24%    /usr
rpool/usr/ports                  7.2G    199M    7.0G     3%    /usr/ 
ports
rpool/usr/src                    7.5G    434M    7.0G     6%    /usr/src
rpool/var                        7.1G    104M    7.0G     1%    /var
rpool/var/crash                  7.0G      0B    7.0G     0%    /var/ 
crash


Regards,
Thomas