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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:15:39 -0700
From:      Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>
Cc:        Henri Hennebert <hlh@restart.be>, Lorenzo Perone <lopez.on.the.lists@yellowspace.net>, Mickael MAILLOT <mickael.maillot@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Alberto Villa <villa.alberto@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: ZFS booting without partitions
Message-ID:  <3c1674c90906011515r5f706fdfl570e17a3c90f169f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> wrot=
e:
> I'm thinking that too. =A0I spent some time taking stabs at figuring it o=
ut
> yesterday but didn't get anywhere useful. =A0I did try compiling the -cur=
rent
> src/sys/boot tree on 7.2 after a couple header tweaks to make it compile =
but
> the loader still didn't work. =A0The working loader is the same file size=
 as
> the broken loader unless it was compiled on i386 and then it is ~30k bigg=
er
> for some reason (it shrinks to the same size as the rest if I force it to
> use the same 32bit compilation flags as used on amd64). =A0Just mentionin=
g
> this in case it saves someone else some time. =A0I'm real pleased it work=
s at
> all.

If someone has the time to track down the differences I'll MFC them.
I'm not using ZFS boot at the moment so I have no way of testing.

Cheers,
Kip



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