[Text reflowed to be RFC compliant.] On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:09:30 PDT Anon Y Mous <system5unix at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just install OpenSolaris 2008.05 as the last thing after you've > already installed everything else and you should be able to get the > special Solaris GRUB with the magical ZFS secret sauce ingredients > that allow everything to boot up the way you want it to. The last time I tried this, the OpenSolaris GRUB didn't grok the ufs2 file systems used in recent FreeBSD releases, so the standard FreeBSD formula didn't work. If that's still the case, trying something like chainloader + standard FreeBSD boot block on the FreeBSD partition might work. > Let me put it this way: the Mac OS X programmers and the FreeBSD > programmers have been trying to boot up into a full ZFS root version > of their operating system for years now AND they have the source > code blue prints for how it works in Solaris given to them by Sun > and yet they STILL (as far as I know) haven't been able to achieve > the holy grail of a fully bootable ZFS root file system for their OS > (they can mount ZFS partitions after booting up, but still no ZFS > root and no ZFS /boot). bootable zfs, no. zfs on root a while back. See: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
