I had to set up ZFS on MBR lately. Since I'm lazy I wrote a script for that. Maybe it would suit your needs (it's very simple though). https://bitbucket.org/ukaszg/freebsd-zfs-on-mbr-installer
2013/5/9 Giorgos Keramidas <keram...@ceid.upatras.gr>: > On Sun, 05 May 2013 17:56:49 -0500, Joshua Isom <jri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 5/5/2013 3:20 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> 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 >> >> What? I've been using this set up for years. >> >> => 34 976773101 ada1 GPT (465G) >> 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) >> 162 8388608 2 freebsd-swap (4.0G) >> 8388770 968384365 3 freebsd-zfs (461G) >> >> => 34 976773101 ada2 GPT (465G) >> 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) >> 162 8388608 2 freebsd-swap (4.0G) >> 8388770 968384365 3 freebsd-zfs (461G) > > That's ok for GPT partitions. The original post was about an MBR > partition table. > > Some modern laptops (mine is one) do not boot successfully from a disk > with a GPT partition scheme, unless the boot loader is EFI-capable > (which ours isn't). So you have to use an MBR-style partition table. > > In those cases the note is still useful to see. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Pozdrawiam, Łukasz Gruner _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
