amd64/160801: zfsboot on 8.2-RELEASE fails to boot from root-on-zfs in MBR slice

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 19 16:03:47 UTC 2011


on 19/09/2011 17:30 Camillo Särs said the following:
> Does the 8.2-stable memstick image still use MBR?  If so, I could
>  conceivably try to copy the 9.0 zfsboot version to the 8.2-stable
>  memstick and test both.

Perhaps create your own?
It should be relatively easy to do with the mfsBSD tools:
http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/

As far as I can the tools create an image in a "dangerously dedicated" mode.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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