Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 14:33:40 +0200 From: demelier.david@gmail.com To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on MBR does not boot at all Message-ID: <6880589.HeDbgaSJ34@melon> In-Reply-To: <67um8rwqrdrxes.fsf@saturn.laptop> References: <CAO%2BPfDeyQ16aXEV1P6ACAE7=sbn%2Bm_-j2c5fV1YmqV8ds6cejw@mail.gmail.com> <CAO%2BPfDdnssETKQHVBAPv60waaXhHNZj7r-f53VNh%2Bh99=3LOPQ@mail.gmail.com> <67um8rwqrdrxes.fsf@saturn.laptop>
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Le dimanche 5 mai 2013 22:20:43 Giorgos Keramidas a =E9crit : > On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:29:18 +0200, David Demelier=20 <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2013/4/18 David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>: > >> 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,
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