Stefan Esser napsal(a): > On 13.11.2009 15:25, Robert Noland wrote: > >> I think we have missed the boat, but I'll talk to re_at_ and see if we >> can get it in. >> > > The patch fixed GPT/ZFS booting for me, too. It would be good to have > it in 8.0 (since it is definitely required to boot from ZFS pools with > non-trivial sizes), and does not affect anybody not trying to boot > this way. OTOH, it since you cannot just install FreeBSD on pure ZFS > from sysinstall, it might be sufficient to prominently warn about this > problem and point at the required patch, to prevent foot-shooting. > > But having this patch that has been successfully tested by a number > of people that suffered from the GPT/ZFS boot problem looks highly > preferable to me ... > > Regards, STefan > I can confirm that the patch is working for me too, and I'm able now to boot from raidz/raidz2 pool after rewriting loader.conf/loader/kernel. I agree with Stefan, having it in 8.0-RELEASE would be good, catch the boat :) Big thnx to Matt, great work from all.Received on Sat Nov 14 2009 - 08:05:24 UTC
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