From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 12 01:55:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB5A1065675 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:55:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f193.google.com (mail-pz0-f193.google.com [209.85.222.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0AE28FC16 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:55:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by pzk31 with SMTP id 31so1158552pzk.3 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:55:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=pm3aHBcZN3EQbbeugHg2rZZ2Svt4LwIlqZWE4MbyLuk=; b=n6ahIIt4V+1Q/6PrMgpWE1jIU3563ieF4zFGf/esb8AfL3/+Vmqv60IoUfBiUUIyRt BU2AXPUOhqCJAntFLCGG2SPSCpkdIb7FttYMaCzDiDRzQ4Vr0cfqzbincTSxSHPZMM7M xdaCSba7CpymbXzlQc7QIvVSAujEL+sBArIec= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wsjpbvDnYo2v5FcxZarVOnc87SoPVRWZ6aAKOGok4+WFGf5M8y2jidH2JY+hCMmXHo Y3MWaiPjaPjpPzmlTNNWgnD+m2Wpnr3ub7pRe2Cko9G06mNJ7u0U6jWGfTl5rtU2WsDl 2iJ9eMOvYPrARBwZau5A0gztzFKuNBGz0cYJM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.95.5 with SMTP id s5mr6080774wab.1.1247363752243; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:55:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <367b2c980907111603t74766651gf52310d38dc48dd2@mail.gmail.com> References: <790a9fff0907101159w495b644dge4a4bd81de0bda9b@mail.gmail.com> <20090710211809.GA84773@crodrigues.org> <790a9fff0907101911y7143ed4bnbb050d78ebc21558@mail.gmail.com> <790a9fff0907110606t61da8ebbufa5575d12d949ca@mail.gmail.com> <367b2c980907111603t74766651gf52310d38dc48dd2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:55:52 -0500 Message-ID: <790a9fff0907111855md9de566n62926c0037606514@mail.gmail.com> From: Scot Hetzel To: Olivier SMEDTS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: [SOLVED]Re: How to create ZFS on Root using MBR slices? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:55:53 -0000 > Can you successfuly boot this ZFS-Only FreeBSD on MBR slices ? > Yes, my system has successfully booted from the ZFS-Only Root filesystem as outlined in http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRootWithZFSboot. I did have to set exec=on for the /var/tmp directory, otherwise it wouldn't let pkg_add run the +INSTALL scripts from the package staging area in /var/tmp. > I tried the zfsboot trick few months ago and it didn't work for me. > And it still doesn't work, I'm stuck at the loader with no prompt. I > tried both with a BSD partition (freebsd-zfs type) and without, > directly on the MBR slice. > Did it get stuck at the Boot Manager menu (F1 - Win, F2 - FreeBSD, ...) or did it show that it was running /boot/loader? If it was running /boot/loader, you need to make sure that LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT (add it to src.conf) was used to build /boot/loader and installed on your system. Also make sure that /boot/zfs/zpool.cache was copied to your ZFS zpool (i.e zroot/boot/zfs/). Scot