Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:01:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-stable@tharned.org> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from ZFS Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1503251354000.1977@w10.sac.fedex.com> In-Reply-To: <C389278C-B34B-429D-A4D1-686934A1E438@gid.co.uk> References: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1503242331240.1843@angus.tharned.org> <C389278C-B34B-429D-A4D1-686934A1E438@gid.co.uk>
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2015, Bob Bishop wrote: > Hi, > >> On 25 Mar 2015, at 04:56, Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-stable@tharned.org> wrote: >> >> I'm trying to build a bootable ZFS system on a USB drive. Using the >> procedure below results in the following error when I try to boot: >> >> gptzfsboot: error 66 LBA 48 >> gptzfsboot: error 66 LBA 1 >> gptzfsboot: No ZFS pools located, can't boot > > Presumably gptzfsboot relies on the BIOS mapping the USB device into a > DOS device. Do you have that support turned on in the BIOS? > I was testing this on a 2010 vintage HP G71 laptop which has no BIOS settings for USB. I didn't think about it being a BIOS issue since it boots gptboot/UFS with no problem. So I tried booting the very same gptzfsboot/ZFS USB drive on a different machine and it boots fine, so I guess it is just a HP BIOS problem. Sorry for the false alarm. -- Greg Rivers
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