Re: ZFS booting without partitions (was: ZFS boot on zfs mirror)

2009-06-01 Thread Lorenzo Perone
On 31.05.2009, at 09:18, Adam McDougall wrote: I encountered the same symptoms today on both a 32bit and 64bit brand new install using gptzfsboot. It works for me when I use a copy of loader from an 8-current box with zfs support compiled in. I haven't looked into it much yet but it might help

Re: ZFS booting without partitions (was: ZFS boot on zfs mirror)

2009-06-01 Thread Alberto Villa
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Lorenzo Perone wrote: > the result is, when choosing the disk with the zfs boot > sectors in it (in my case F5, which goes to ad6), the kernel > is not found. the console shows: > > forth not found > definitions not found > only not found > (the above repeated seve

Re: ZFS booting without partitions (was: ZFS boot on zfs mirror)

2009-05-31 Thread Enrico M.
On Thursday 28 May 2009 15:58:04 Lorenzo Perone wrote: > Hi, > > I tried hard... but without success ;( > > the result is, when choosing the disk with the zfs boot > sectors in it (in my case F5, which goes to ad6), the kernel > is not found. the console shows: > > forth not found > definitions not

Re: ZFS booting without partitions (was: ZFS boot on zfs mirror)

2009-05-31 Thread Adam McDougall
I encountered the same symptoms today on both a 32bit and 64bit brand new install using gptzfsboot. It works for me when I use a copy of loader from an 8-current box with zfs support compiled in. I haven't looked into it much yet but it might help you. If you want, you can try the loader I am usi

Re: ZFS booting without partitions (was: ZFS boot on zfs mirror)

2009-05-28 Thread Lorenzo Perone
On 28.05.2009, at 21:46, Mickael MAILLOT wrote: hi, did you erase gmirror meta ? (on the last sector) with: gmirror clear ad6 ohps I had forgotten that. just did it (in single user mode), but it didn't help :( Shall I repeat any of the other steps after clearing gmirror meta? thanx a lot f

Re: ZFS booting without partitions (was: ZFS boot on zfs mirror)

2009-05-28 Thread Mickael MAILLOT
hi, did you erase gmirror meta ? (on the last sector) with: gmirror clear ad6 2009/5/28 Lorenzo Perone : > Hi, > > I tried hard... but without success ;( > > the result is, when choosing the disk with the zfs boot > sectors in it (in my case F5, which goes to ad6), the kernel > is not found. the