Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
On 17 May 2014 18:55, Sevan / Venture37 ventur...@gmail.com wrote: For archaeological reasons, the X61s was able to boot using ZFS on a BSD partition scheme (Thanks to Allen), the system can also boot from a ZFS volume with a MBR partition scheme if you *do not* use the stock FreeBSD boot loader switch to GRUB, this was tested by doing a stock install of PCBSD 10.0-RELEASE. Part 2 Ran zpool labelclear -f ada0 re-attempted a manual install onto a MBR partition from the r265054 AMD64 snapshot I had at BSDCan, system boots fine. System is now multi-booting again with Windows OpenBSD across 4 MBR partitions. Sevan / Venture37 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
On 08/06/2014 16:33, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: On 17 May 2014 18:55, Sevan / Venture37ventur...@gmail.com wrote: For archaeological reasons, the X61s was able to boot using ZFS on a BSD partition scheme (Thanks to Allen), the system can also boot from a ZFS volume with a MBR partition scheme if you*do not* use the stock FreeBSD boot loader switch to GRUB, this was tested by doing a stock install of PCBSD 10.0-RELEASE. Part 2 Ran zpool labelclear -f ada0 re-attempted a manual install onto a MBR partition from the r265054 AMD64 snapshot I had at BSDCan, system boots fine. System is now multi-booting again with Windows OpenBSD across 4 MBR partitions. That should've been zpool labelclear -f /dev/ada0 Replaced the SSD in my X61s with a SATA HDD re-attempted the install once more, this time using the root-on-ZFS menu option in the installer. It worked without any further intervention. Sevan / Venture37 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
On 2 May 2014 12:14, Sevan / Venture37 ventur...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 April 2014 21:54, Allan Jude free...@allanjude.com wrote: If anyone who is having trouble getting ZFS booting on one of these Lenovos is going to be at BSDCan, and has a spare disk they are willing to let me hack on, I would be interested in trying to get it booting for you so we can develop a solution to this issue if there is one. I am under the impression the issue is the way gpart does the MBR (or pMBR) with respect to the 'active' flag, but there are a number of different things i'd like to try. It all works flawlessly on my T530 I'll be at BSDCan with the laptop, you can see what's up for yourself. :) For archaeological reasons, the X61s was able to boot using ZFS on a BSD partition scheme (Thanks to Allen), the system can also boot from a ZFS volume with a MBR partition scheme if you *do not* use the stock FreeBSD boot loader switch to GRUB, this was tested by doing a stock install of PCBSD 10.0-RELEASE. Sevan / Venture37 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
On 23 April 2014 21:54, Allan Jude free...@allanjude.com wrote: If anyone who is having trouble getting ZFS booting on one of these Lenovos is going to be at BSDCan, and has a spare disk they are willing to let me hack on, I would be interested in trying to get it booting for you so we can develop a solution to this issue if there is one. I am under the impression the issue is the way gpart does the MBR (or pMBR) with respect to the 'active' flag, but there are a number of different things i'd like to try. It all works flawlessly on my T530 I'll be at BSDCan with the laptop, you can see what's up for yourself. :) Sevan / Venture37 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Sevan / Venture37 ventur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I decided to wipe away the disk in my X61s start afresh with a new install of FreeBSD-Current at the same time switching to root on ZFS (previously /boot was on UFS). I've been unsuccessful in being able get the system to boot, after trying various combinations of https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition I switched back to using the install menu option just switching from GPT to MBR (everything else as default). Once install completes the system reboots, the system hangs at a prompt. I was pointed to a post regarding modifying partition ID's by Allan Jude as there seems to have been an issue with ThinkPads FreeBSD in the past. This also didn't work caused the system to reset. What should be my next step for trying to debug this issue? Sevan / Venture37 It seems there are some problems with compatibility :( I'm have X220 my config # camcontrol devlist Corsair Neutron SSD M206 at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0) OCZ-NOCTI 2.15 at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (ada1,pass1) % gpart show = 63 468862065 ada0 MBR (224G) 63 234441585 1 freebsd (112G) 234441648 234420480 2 freebsd (112G) =0 234441585 ada0s1 BSD (112G) 0 234441585 1 freebsd-zfs (112G) = 63 234441585 ada1 MBR (112G) 63 234441585 1 freebsd [active] (112G) =0 234441585 ada1s1 BSD (112G) 0 234441585 1 freebsd-zfs (112G) system ZFS mirror x220pool (ada0s1a ada1s1a) boot only ada1 (msata) disk. Boot with GPT not work, black screen and reboot without any menu. When I used HDD as ada1 boot with him work MBR method Might be worth trying to boot from UEFI but it's still an experimental method https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
On 2014-04-23 16:33, Andrey Fesenko wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Sevan / Venture37 ventur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I decided to wipe away the disk in my X61s start afresh with a new install of FreeBSD-Current at the same time switching to root on ZFS (previously /boot was on UFS). I've been unsuccessful in being able get the system to boot, after trying various combinations of https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition I switched back to using the install menu option just switching from GPT to MBR (everything else as default). Once install completes the system reboots, the system hangs at a prompt. I was pointed to a post regarding modifying partition ID's by Allan Jude as there seems to have been an issue with ThinkPads FreeBSD in the past. This also didn't work caused the system to reset. What should be my next step for trying to debug this issue? Sevan / Venture37 It seems there are some problems with compatibility :( I'm have X220 my config # camcontrol devlist Corsair Neutron SSD M206 at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0) OCZ-NOCTI 2.15 at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (ada1,pass1) % gpart show = 63 468862065 ada0 MBR (224G) 63 234441585 1 freebsd (112G) 234441648 234420480 2 freebsd (112G) =0 234441585 ada0s1 BSD (112G) 0 234441585 1 freebsd-zfs (112G) = 63 234441585 ada1 MBR (112G) 63 234441585 1 freebsd [active] (112G) =0 234441585 ada1s1 BSD (112G) 0 234441585 1 freebsd-zfs (112G) system ZFS mirror x220pool (ada0s1a ada1s1a) boot only ada1 (msata) disk. Boot with GPT not work, black screen and reboot without any menu. When I used HDD as ada1 boot with him work MBR method Might be worth trying to boot from UEFI but it's still an experimental method https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org If anyone who is having trouble getting ZFS booting on one of these Lenovos is going to be at BSDCan, and has a spare disk they are willing to let me hack on, I would be interested in trying to get it booting for you so we can develop a solution to this issue if there is one. I am under the impression the issue is the way gpart does the MBR (or pMBR) with respect to the 'active' flag, but there are a number of different things i'd like to try. It all works flawlessly on my T530 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
On 22 Apr 2014, at 16:19, Hiroo Ono (小野寛生) hiroo.ono+free...@gmail.com wrote: Does it make any difference if you put geom_part_mbr_load=YES geom_part_bsd_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf before rebooting? It must be ZFS testing night :) Unfortunately, this didn't work No uefi support on the X61s either :( Sevan / Venture37 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
On 23 Apr 2014, at 21:54, Allan Jude free...@allanjude.com wrote: If anyone who is having trouble getting ZFS booting on one of these Lenovos is going to be at BSDCan, and has a spare disk they are willing to let me hack on If anyone can cover my flight expenses, to BSDCan this year, Im happy to take my X61s to the con. Sevan / Venture37 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
hello, I am not sure, so pardon me if I am wrong. 2014-04-16 7:01 GMT+09:00 Sevan / Venture37 ventur...@gmail.com: Hi, I decided to wipe away the disk in my X61s start afresh with a new install of FreeBSD-Current at the same time switching to root on ZFS (previously /boot was on UFS). I've been unsuccessful in being able get the system to boot, after trying various combinations of https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition I switched back to using the install menu option just switching from GPT to MBR (everything else as default). Once install completes the system reboots, the system hangs at a prompt. option GEOM_PART_MBR option GEOM_PART_BSD are dropped from GENERIC config. Does it make any difference if you put geom_part_mbr_load=YES geom_part_bsd_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf before rebooting? I was pointed to a post regarding modifying partition ID's by Allan Jude as there seems to have been an issue with ThinkPads FreeBSD in the past. This also didn't work caused the system to reset. What should be my next step for trying to debug this issue? Sevan / Venture37 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Booting from ZFS root on MBR layout fails on ThinkPad X61s
Hi, I decided to wipe away the disk in my X61s start afresh with a new install of FreeBSD-Current at the same time switching to root on ZFS (previously /boot was on UFS). I've been unsuccessful in being able get the system to boot, after trying various combinations of https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition I switched back to using the install menu option just switching from GPT to MBR (everything else as default). Once install completes the system reboots, the system hangs at a prompt. I was pointed to a post regarding modifying partition ID's by Allan Jude as there seems to have been an issue with ThinkPads FreeBSD in the past. This also didn't work caused the system to reset. What should be my next step for trying to debug this issue? Sevan / Venture37 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
