Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:44:15 -0800 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: matt@webcontracts.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root on ZFS Message-ID: <86pr3k852o.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <5f2fd5523c5fb10e82e49e7250430ab7.squirrel@www.webcontracts.co.uk> (Matthew Law's message of "Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:53:56 -0000") References: <5f2fd5523c5fb10e82e49e7250430ab7.squirrel@www.webcontracts.co.uk>
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>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Law <matt@webcontracts.co.uk> writes: Matthew> I am following this wiki page to move to zfs root: Matthew> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot If you're running RELEASE-8 or later, I've gotten this to work just fine: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot Currently live on two slices at arpnetworks.com with that. The trickiest part is that Arp installs an existing system on the disk, and the instructions there don't tell how to remove it. :( I can't remember the workaround, but someone in IRC told me. ("gpart destroy" didn't work, because it said "already in use") -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>; Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion
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