From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Nov 17 19:42:11 2016 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 3A0B9C47B22 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 19:42:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "cdptpa-oedge", Issuer "cdptpa-oedge" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02C841FCF for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 19:42:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from [76.181.114.47] ([76.181.114.47:55686] helo=raspberrypi.bildanet.com) by cdptpa-omsmta03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id 8F/CF-04822-9C70E285; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 19:40:57 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.40] (helo=baho-utot.bildanet.com) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1c7SYL-0001Ae-GL for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:40:57 -0500 Subject: Re: Ok How do I boot this monster? To: Mailinglists FreeBSD References: <07218d20-34a5-171b-f6a8-de3c271733cc@columbus.rr.com> From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <575baf45-b23d-163f-79b0-213a6ba51c91@columbus.rr.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:40:57 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.88:25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 19:42:11 -0000 On 11/17/16 14:19, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Baho Utot wrote: > >> Ok I have installed 11.0 latest memstick image. >> >> I patched/hacked bsdinstall ( /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/zfsboot) to >> install my zfs raidz2 using 800GB partitions. And it even worked! >> >> Now I need to boot this monster as well as my current 10.0 version >> until I can build my desktop upon the raidz, then I will decommission >> the 10.0 version when the 11.0 version is up to snuff. >> >> I have boot0 install to ada0 which boots win7 and 10.0 freebsd. >> >> Can this also boot the raidz? > > No, boot0 is MBR-only. The easiest way I see to do this is to install > gptzfsboot bootcode to the ZFS drives and choose one of them from the > BIOS boot menu. Grub can multi-boot GPT also, although it needs a > small partition of its own. I think the bsdinstall puts that code onto the zfs drives already or am I miss informed? Would creating the raidz on MBR partitions be an answer? Is there a HowTo that shows me how to setup grub if so I have some space left on the drives so I can give grub what it needs.