Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot

From: George Kontostanos <gkontos.mail_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:13:21 +0300
Could you please post the output of: gpart show

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Daniel Staal <DStaal_at_usa.net> wrote:

> --As of May 30, 2011 6:47:32 PM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to
> have said:
>
>  The bootcode should be installed to the drive that you are booting from.
>>
>> I see that you have:
>>
>>  ada1:
>>>  1 freebsd-boot
>>>  2 freebsd-swap  8G
>>>  3 freebsd-zfs   4G (zil)
>>>  4 freebsd-zfs   17G (cache)
>>>
>>> ada0: Managed by ZFS, ~250G  Main filesystem.
>>>
>>
>> I don't think that ada1 holds any OS files therefore you will need to boot
>> from ada0
>>
>> gpart create -s gpt ada0
>> gpart add -b 34 -s 64k -t freebsd-boot ada0
>> gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0
>>
>
> --As for the rest, it is mine.
>
> I said that was my preferred partitioning.  I had tried others.  ;)  I just
> double-checked putting the bootcode on ada0.  It doesn't help.
>
> (Note that if it did that'd be an interesting regression from 8.2.  My home
> server is running with *only* the bootcode on one drive, and the OS loaded
> from a ZFS RAIDZ array.)
>
>
> Daniel T. Staal
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> This email copyright the author.  Unless otherwise noted, you
> are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use
> the contents for non-commercial purposes.  This copyright will
> expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years,
> whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of
> local copyright law.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"
>



-- 
George Kontostanos
aisecure.net <http://www.aisecure.net>
Received on Mon May 30 2011 - 16:13:22 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:14 UTC