From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 18 01:10:09 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 A9B14C44E33 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 01:10:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.232]) (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 70C6E7DF for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 01:10:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from [76.181.114.47] ([76.181.114.47:55825] helo=raspberrypi.bildanet.com) by cdptpa-omsmta02 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id 9F/48-30921-9E45E285; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 01:10:01 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.41] (helo=dell.example.org) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1c7Xgn-0001IH-9i for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:10:01 -0500 Subject: Re: Ok How do I boot this monster? References: <07218d20-34a5-171b-f6a8-de3c271733cc@columbus.rr.com> <575baf45-b23d-163f-79b0-213a6ba51c91@columbus.rr.com> To: Mailinglists FreeBSD From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <222fccf6-f049-601c-02ba-d4d9a92ef176@columbus.rr.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:10:01 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.7:25 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: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 01:10:09 -0000 On 11/17/16 19:04, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Baho Utot wrote: > >> >> >> 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? > > That might actually work. Too much work, and too much a step > backwards for me. > >> 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. > > If you have any reasonably standard machine from the last decade or > so, there is a keypress on boot to choose a boot device. This might > have been disabled, but then could be re-enabled. For quality > home-builder motherboards like Gigabyte, it's F12. For quality > prebuilt systems like Dell, it's usually F12. > > For HP... it could be pretty much anything. F10, F9, Esc. Anything, > really, except F12. Does anyone know if ports/sysutils/grub2 works? I found some old posts on the net that is saying that it has some problems building and installing under FreeBSD. It might be a solution for me as I really don't want to do the hit the keyboard at boot thing Thanks