On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Stefan Bethke wrote: SB> > is there a way to configure ZFS-only setup without partitions? SB> > SB> > I tried to reproduce the trick with `skip=1 seek=1024', and have SB> > loot/loader SB> > running, but it does not see the pool. SB> SB> This sequence is working for me: SB> dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/da0 count=1 SB> dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/da0 skip=1 seek=1024 SB> zpool create zroot /dev/da0 SB> zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot SB> cd /usr/src && make installworld installkernel distribution DESTDIR=/zroot SB> cp /boot/loader.conf /zroot/boot/loader.conf SB> cp /etc/rc.conf /zroot/etc/ SB> touch /zroot/etc/fstab SB> echo 'zfs_load="YES"' >>/zroot/boot/loader.conf SB> echo 'vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zroot"' >>/zroot/boot/loader.conf SB> zpool export zroot SB> zpool import zroot SB> cp /boot/zfs/zpool.cache /zroot/boot/zfs/ SB> zfs set mountpoint=legacy zroot SB> SB> ... except that it doesn't anymore. I saw this working about two months SB> ago, but now it fails to mount root. Verbose boot doesn't give any SB> indication why ZFS can't find the pool. Well, after all, I've managed to boot 8.0-RC2/amd64 from 1+0 zpool without either UFS or GPT/MBR. Will test further. As for the source of previous failure -- It seems bootfs property in my previous experiment did not set properly... -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck_at_FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck_at_rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Thu Oct 29 2009 - 17:17:23 UTC
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