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Subject: Re: gpt zfs raidz1 boot failure
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On 2/8/2012 12:42 PM, George Kontostanos wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Chris Jones<chris@cjones.org>  wrote:
>> If you build a zfs in degraded mode, it's not bootable. But if you build it
>> normally, then remove a disk to put it in degraded mode, it is bootable.
> I might be missing something here but it looks like you are trying to
> boot from a degraded raidz1 pool consisted from 1 drive?

Correct. I've also replicated the problem using a degraded mirror 
consisting of 1 drive.

Chris