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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:19:21 +0900
From:      =?UTF-8?B?SGlyb28gT25vICjlsI/ph47lr5vnlJ8p?= <hiroo.ono+freebsd@gmail.com>
To:        "Sevan / Venture37" <venture37@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
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hello,
I am not sure, so pardon me if I am wrong.

2014-04-16 7:01 GMT+09:00 Sevan / Venture37 <venture37@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I decided to wipe away the disk in my X61s & start afresh with a new
> install of FreeBSD-Current at the same time switching to root on ZFS
> (previously /boot was on UFS).
> I've been unsuccessful in being able get the system to boot, after
> trying various combinations of
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition I switched back to
> using the install menu option & just switching from GPT to MBR
> (everything else as default).
> Once install completes & the system reboots, the system hangs at a prompt.

option GEOM_PART_MBR
option GEOM_PART_BSD
are dropped from GENERIC config.

Does it make any difference if you put

geom_part_mbr_load="YES"
geom_part_bsd_load="YES"

in /boot/loader.conf before rebooting?

> I was pointed to a post regarding modifying partition ID's by Allan
> Jude as there seems to have been an issue with ThinkPads & FreeBSD in
> the past. This also didn't work & caused the system to reset.
>
> What should be my next step for trying to debug this issue?
>
>
> Sevan / Venture37
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