On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken_at_mthelicon.com> wrote: > Hello Chris, Scott & Current > > I use gptzfsboot on my AMD64 (current) machine all the time and also on > my laptop. I am not sure if this will cause the problem you are seeing but I > know I ran into a lot of trouble depending on what type of pool I was > creating. > > I believe this is correct, and if I am not than I apologise in advance, > but.... > > If you are trying to boot off a linear type pool (A single disk or a > mirror) your bootable filing system has to be a zfs filing system beneath the > root pool (IE: zroot/boot). If you are trying to boot off a zraid pool, your > bootable filing system must be the root filing system of the pool (IE: zroot) > > You must also include the appropriate declaration in the > /boot/loader.conf file: > > (for a zraid pool) > zfs_load="YES" > vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zpool" > > (for a linear type) > zfs_load="YES" > vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zpool/root" > > If I try any other method, zboot explodes in a myriad of different ways. > Not sure why your zboot explodes, but I use a single disk and only use the following in /boot/loader.conf: zfs_load="YES" vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zpool" it should work with either zfs:zpool or zfs:zpool/root. ScotReceived on Wed Feb 17 2010 - 20:03:51 UTC
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