Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 23:44:14 +0100 From: Sevan / Venture37 <venture37@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s Message-ID: <5394E73E.7070509@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BU3Mf6N0mtj%2Bp9b3oSM2NSa8NAcc4Xq4w8-bT89YVZ%2B6oF7oA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BU3Mf6w-Af2H1uJtfLzvKwYc%2BFmTfHvupSU_Z7WCFrHcWTV4g@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BK5SrPErbbJiYDCs7be15ZU1j89s2Hpaa0kLPmj8dUkTyyKGA@mail.gmail.com> <53582881.9020301@allanjude.com> <CA%2BU3Mf4St%2BsUJpR6m4E4NUQP=Hmk_LFyQg5vSC8QqcxBNuitXw@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BU3Mf7HdumxH5YAp-Maseyw=Ah6tPHcXGbKxY0tdX=FWMFffQ@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BU3Mf6N0mtj%2Bp9b3oSM2NSa8NAcc4Xq4w8-bT89YVZ%2B6oF7oA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/06/2014 16:33, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: > On 17 May 2014 18:55, Sevan / Venture37<venture37@gmail.com> wrote: >> >For archaeological reasons, the X61s was able to boot using ZFS on a >> >BSD partition scheme (Thanks to Allen), the system can also boot from >> >a ZFS volume with a MBR partition scheme if you*do not* use the stock >> >FreeBSD boot loader & switch to GRUB, this was tested by doing a stock >> >install of PCBSD 10.0-RELEASE. > Part 2 > Ran "zpool labelclear -f ada0" & re-attempted a manual install onto a > MBR partition from the r265054 AMD64 snapshot I had at BSDCan, system > boots fine. > System is now multi-booting again with Windows & OpenBSD across 4 MBR > partitions. That should've been "zpool labelclear -f /dev/ada0" Replaced the SSD in my X61s with a SATA HDD & re-attempted the install once more, this time using the root-on-ZFS menu option in the installer. It worked without any further intervention. Sevan / Venture37
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