From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 12 12:33:55 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278E3F2B; Sun, 12 May 2013 12:33:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-x232.google.com (mail-wg0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CECB9B9; Sun, 12 May 2013 12:33:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f50.google.com with SMTP id m15so5294371wgh.17 for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 05:33:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=Bb8jJpoAsyDp6kGD3+86kQIk14jeIKbaA/wLobXjKNc=; b=sDAmGSqWC0KtRWD4PYa6jcXBq//+PC4GhThjVQ2fd5mVgPpdq5WsWP8u6d7+3yg9sN zHmLoEwPHdhtciGiHuaqogCBvvBvpso48ogqazHQStZqvBjW8BDzMf4KpBcaggbJRseH 9CFZKA6yLTgPYAVxJNDL0PCGcwvos+67v3JZf3iH/6KcNBk6KP8OSp70kj8mY+O+MqIA /oTQFRtNJtwGGyZbpuLun/fLlD7aoS3SFXRsil6rSCN0/OGehSgDdC1aLwZrZRRktwkc XutOwzKtoyvXQhGmQz+JLbpgZidNuKZDIHye6YDzwmq3joALPy6uPctRRjWIA4b7TZkA rJig== X-Received: by 10.194.58.243 with SMTP id u19mr34316646wjq.47.1368362032612; Sun, 12 May 2013 05:33:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from melon.localnet (227.33.91.91.rev.sfr.net. [91.91.33.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id cw8sm9029200wib.7.2013.05.12.05.33.51 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 12 May 2013 05:33:51 -0700 (PDT) From: demelier.david@gmail.com To: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: ZFS on MBR does not boot at all Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 14:33:40 +0200 Message-ID: <6880589.HeDbgaSJ34@melon> User-Agent: KMail/4.10.1 (FreeBSD/9.1-RELEASE-p1; KDE/4.10.1; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <67um8rwqrdrxes.fsf@saturn.laptop> References: <67um8rwqrdrxes.fsf@saturn.laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Cc: David Demelier , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 12:33:55 -0000 Le dimanche 5 mai 2013 22:20:43 Giorgos Keramidas a =E9crit : > On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:29:18 +0200, David Demelier=20 wrote: > > 2013/4/18 David Demelier : > >> Hello, > >> I would like to use ZFS over MBR for multiboot purposes. I've foll= owed > >> that guide https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition but= it > >> does not boot at all. The loader does not show up after choosing > >> FreeBSD in the boot0 loader. > >>=20 > >> The _ prompt appears but nothing starts. I've found many people ov= er > >> the web having the same problem but unfortunately no one found a > >> solution. > >>=20 > >> I think the offensive commands are ones with dd and zfsboot. > >> Regards, > >=20 > > So someone told me on IRC that the main problem was that I've put m= y > > partition swap as first partition in the FreeBSD slice and zfsboot > > *requires* that the zfs partition is the first. > >=20 > > Can someone with right access to the wiki page may add a notice abo= ut > > this issue on https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition > > please? >=20 > Hi David, >=20 > Thanks for following up with what the real problem was. I updated th= e > Wiki to include this: >=20 > Note that partition order is important. It seems that zfsboot > requires the freebsd-zfs partition to be the first, so make sure = you > add if first, before your swap partition. Thank you :) Regards,