Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:42:15 -0700 From: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS root partition Message-ID: <AANLkTik369hGr6arSt6SFYRc8UPPjEYPuqUiNW2GG6k=@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201007270945.32010.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <AANLkTimnM=taU4rNuX51cAiLjWkC1zKNgLYH0xgSRoHB@mail.gmail.com> <201007270945.32010.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:45 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. Okay, so I looked at some of the non-GPT examples on the http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS page, and they still reference files that don't exist for sparc64, like /boot/boot and /boot/boot0. I don't really know much about sparc64 - I bought a cheap box off ebay more as a curiosity than anything else - what is the proper way to partition and install a bootloader on sparc64 without sysinstall? Everything I can find online seems to be i386/amd64 centric. Thanks, -- Rob Farmer > > -- > John Baldwin >
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