Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:04:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Everything (but /boot) on ZFS - trouble Message-ID: <20070705030402.GE1289@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <21030091-F8DD-4787-9B36-6951381638A7@exscape.org> References: <21030091-F8DD-4787-9B36-6951381638A7@exscape.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In the last episode (Jul 04), Thomas Backman said: > The FreeBSD wiki entry (http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot) is either > outdated or incomplete; or it's just that I have no clue... > In either case, the guide tells me to create a "boot" symlink on the new > partition, but I already have such a file (/boot/boot, not a link): > [root@devil ~]# file /boot/boot > /boot/boot: x86 boot sector; partition 4: ID=0xa5, active, starthead 0, > startsector 0, 50000 sectors, code offset 0x3c, reserved sectors 0, Media > descriptor 0x0, reserved 0x16, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x1f) > > What to do? I have no idea if this file is needed or not, and how to > proceed. Input is welcome. BTW, I'm new to FreeBSD-CURRENT, and also > quite inexperienced with mailing lists, so be gentle. :) You should use option two described on that page: zfsroot mounted on /, with a boot->bootvol/boot symlink ufs filesystem on /bootvol with boot files in a "boot" subdirectory I sent an email to Pawel last week talking about this problem, but it doesn't look like he's changed the wiki page yet. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20070705030402.GE1289>