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Date:      Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:42:05 +0400
From:      "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
To:        Stefan Lambrev <cheffo@freebsd-bg.org>, d@delphij.net
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting from ZFS - fail.
Message-ID:  <5433B56D.3060904@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <CAHtsMQ3pDTd0BTJ6tPHGwhoCbqtHnr34PGp8gnkqwQn_W-PbNw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 07.10.2014 11:14, Stefan Lambrev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have tested with a mirror from just 2x3TB HDDs but with no difference.
> Though the layout of the partitions was the same (e.g. the smallest
> partition I have tried is 2.7TB):
> 
> gpart show ada0 (This is valid for all four disks)
> =>        34  5860533101  ada0  GPT  (2.7T)
>           34           6        - free -  (3.0K)
>           40         512     1  freebsd-boot  (256K)
>          552  5860532576     2  freebsd-zfs  [bootme]  (2.7T)
>   5860533128           7        - free -  (3.5K)

Hi,

The problem might be in your BIOS, probably if you create ZFS pool on
small partitions, then it will boot.

Also bootme/bootonce attributes work only with gptboot and freebsd-ufs
partitions.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov



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