Re: ZFS install from -CURRENT snapshot

oops typos, typos!

That's one of the bad things that happens when you type without having the
copy - paste functionality.

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Daniel Staal <DStaal_at_usa.net> wrote:

> --As of May 31, 2011 1:21:49 AM +0300, George Kontostanos is alleged to
> have said:
>
>  Bingo! That did it. I will update the guide soon.
>>
>> _at_Daniel my apologies it seems that another typo is preventing you from
>> booting. You have to set the bootfs in the pool.
>>
>> zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot
>>
>
> --As for the rest, it is mine.
>
> I'd actually caught that one...  (Yesterday afternoon.)
>
> I was hoping this was something people had seen before.  At this point,
> I've been trying to get a FreeBSD+ZFS install on this box for about a month
> - including spending much of my first vacation in two years on it - and I
> know that even if I do manage to do so I'll still have a problem with the
> screen resolution.  (Sandy Bridge integrated graphics.  It works in VERSA
> mode, but doesn't detect the native mode.)
>
> I've decided to call it quits for now.  A current Linux runs fine.  The
> power management isn't as good as FreeBSD, I'm loosing the ZFS coolness, and
> the other advantages of a FreeBSD box over Linux, but it means I've got a
> working laptop for the moment.  I'll revisit putting FreeBSD on it sometime
> in the future, once the hardware isn't quite so current-edge.  For now, I've
> invested too much time into just getting this running.
>
> George, a couple other notes on your walkthrough:  (I'd decided to wait
> until I was done to go over all of these.)
> cd /tmp && copy -R * /boot    # Needs to be cp.
> zpool create -O mountpoint=/mnt zroot /dev/gpt/disk0     # Will avoid the
> export/import later.
>
> And in theory it doesn't make *much* difference, but setting the checksum
> before creating usr, var, and tmp is slightly better practice.  (The
> directory entries are checksummed as well, which would be the only
> difference.  If any files were created in between they'd get the fletcher2
> checksum.)
>
>
> Daniel T. Staal
>
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