On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:29:18 +0200, David Demelier <demelier.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/4/18 David Demelier <demelier.da...@gmail.com>: >> Hello, >> I would like to use ZFS over MBR for multiboot purposes. I've followed >> that guide https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition but it >> does not boot at all. The loader does not show up after choosing >> FreeBSD in the boot0 loader. >> >> The _ prompt appears but nothing starts. I've found many people over >> the web having the same problem but unfortunately no one found a >> solution. >> >> I think the offensive commands are ones with dd and zfsboot. >> Regards, > > So someone told me on IRC that the main problem was that I've put my > partition swap as first partition in the FreeBSD slice and zfsboot > *requires* that the zfs partition is the first. > > Can someone with right access to the wiki page may add a notice about > this issue on https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition > please?
Hi David, Thanks for following up with what the real problem was. I updated the Wiki to include this: Note that partition order is important. It seems that zfsboot requires the freebsd-zfs partition to be the first, so make sure you add if first, before your swap partition. Cheers, Giorgos
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