Re: Root on zfs (stable9) - how to make it bootable

2013-02-22 Thread uki
2013/2/22 David Demelier : > Sorry didn't read that you have a MBR slice instead of GPT > > then you should take a look at that one > https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition I have used that one, unfortunately I was unable to boot. ___ freebs

Re: Root on zfs (stable9) - how to make it bootable

2013-02-22 Thread David Demelier
Sorry didn't read that you have a MBR slice instead of GPT then you should take a look at that one https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition 2013/2/22 David Demelier > There are a lot of example in gpart(8) man page. You should use it > > I think you should do something like > > gpar

Re: Root on zfs (stable9) - how to make it bootable

2013-02-22 Thread David Demelier
There are a lot of example in gpart(8) man page. You should use it I think you should do something like gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada0 gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0 (The second assume that you have a freebsd-boot as first index in ada0) Cheers, 2013/2/22 uki > Hi, > > I w

Root on zfs (stable9) - how to make it bootable

2013-02-22 Thread uki
Hi, I want to install freebsd9 (stable) on zfs root, unfortunately my bios is unable to recognize GPT discs. I'm using MBR disc, with BSD slice (on mbr index 4) containing freebsd-zfs filesystem. I've no idea how to make it bootable, I've tried using: zpool export sys dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=