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.
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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
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
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=