Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:19:08 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Denny Schierz <linuxmail@4lin.net> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: T245 Netboot/install, FB9-RC1: UFS /boot | ZFS "/" Message-ID: <20111122161908.GA70496@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <0CC8135A-D4A2-4AB7-9C67-A00BAA50BC78@4lin.net> References: <0CC8135A-D4A2-4AB7-9C67-A00BAA50BC78@4lin.net>
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:58:27PM +0100, Denny Schierz wrote: > hi, > > I've successfull bootet from NFS via TFTP/DHCP and now I want to use /boot for UFS and the root filesystem with ZFS, but I don't know, how the boot record must be installed: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/UFSBoot > > I'm ready until (I use VTOC8 instead of mbr) install the boot loader: > > # gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot1 da0 > gpart: Operation not supported by device > > # gpart show da0 > => 0 143331930 da0 VTOC8 (68G) > 0 2088450 1 freebsd-ufs (1G) > 2088450 8385930 2 freebsd-swap (4G) > 10474380 132857550 4 freebsd-zfs (63G) > > > so, what next? > The gpart(8) way of installing bootstrap code for VTOC8 is (see the gpart(8) man page): /sbin/gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1 da0 sunlabel(8) is basically deprecated and probably will go away sooner or later. The above mentioned page is x86-centric. I'm not sure how much of it applies to sparc64 and/or VTOC8 but basically the intended setup should work just fine. Marius
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