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Date:      Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:45:31 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS root partition
Message-ID:  <201007270945.32010.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimnM=taU4rNuX51cAiLjWkC1zKNgLYH0xgSRoHB@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:40:48 am Rob Farmer wrote:
> Is is possible to have a ZFS root with sparc64? I've used one of the
> guides on the wiki, http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot, on
> amd64 and it worked fine, but that doesn't seem to apply, since the
> /boot/pmbr and /boot/gptzfsboot files don't exist on sparc64.

Booting from a GPT isn't supported for OpenFirmware, so it doesn't work for 
sparc64.

-- 
John Baldwin



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