From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jan 16 03:49:38 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161D8E6FBC4 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:49:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (mail.sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 753F782C30 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:49:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.98.5_1 for FreeBSD at relay2.tomsk.ru Received: from [212.73.125.240] (HELO admin.sibptus.transneft.ru) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPS id 39913564; Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:44:46 +0600 Received: from admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (sudakov@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w0G3nXXu094719; Tue, 16 Jan 2018 10:49:33 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w0G3nTlX094715; Tue, 16 Jan 2018 10:49:29 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.transneft.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 10:49:29 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: dweimer@dweimer.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Manish Jain Subject: Re: Dualboot and ZFS Message-ID: <20180116034929.GB89443@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> References: <20180115051308.GA45168@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180115125241.GB60956@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180115144747.GA65526@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180115151526.GA66342@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://www.dreamwidth.org/pubkey?user=victor_sudakov X-PGP-Fingerprint: 10E3 1171 1273 E007 C2E9 3532 0DA4 F259 9B5E C634 User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:49:38 -0000 Dean E. Weimer wrote: [dd] > > For me, however, running "make installworld DESTDIR=xxx" is also > > installing. Can DESTDIR be a zpool on a MBR/BSD slice? > > You can do an install from source to a zfs dataset no matter where it > exists as that just shows up as any other mount point, but if you want > to be able to boot from it I would suggest making it on a GPT disk. The whole point of my question was to install FreeBSD/ZFS as a second system to a box where Windows/NTFS already occupies one MBR partition and there is another MBR partition for FreeBSD. Do you think there is no such luck? I > checked and there is a section on the wiki > about installing > to MBR, but its flagged as will not boot. "Will not boot"? That is odd because: 1. That's basically the setup Manish suggested (using ada0s3a for zpool), and I think it works for him if he gave this advice. 2. zfsboot(8) is designed for MBR so why would it fail to boot? > By the way the setup I sent was installed by using the live CD, creating But your setup is not dualboot which I was asking about. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859