Re: Attempting ZFS Only Install of 7.2

From: Drew Tomlinson <drew_at_mykitchentable.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:06:56 -0700
Jason Garrett wrote:
> >snip everything that don't matter
>
>
>     8. Install ZFS boot:
>     # gpart bootcode -b /zroot/boot/pmbr ad0
>     # gpart bootcode -p /zroot/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0
>
>     9. Change mount points for zroot pool and reboot.
>
>
>
> IT WORKS!!!
>
> Step 8 was CRUCIAL to the setup. All along, following the guides, I 
> was doing this. The ONLY difference was after I built the loader with 
> LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=YES I did this step from /mnt2/boot/pmbr and 
> /mnt2/boot/gptzfsboot. One guide even had me do this first. This is 
> the one thing that made it work. I am now happy to be testing 
> 8.0-BETA1 on my machine.
>
Congratulations!  Now I have new hope.  :)  Hopefully I will get some 
time this weekend to try again.

Cheers,

Drew

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Received on Fri Jul 17 2009 - 13:33:49 UTC

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