Resolved: 'kernel' not found - ZFS on GPT boot

[Patrick Dorion]

Well I am pleased to report that I was successful in booting FreeBSD  
8.2-RELEASE from a ZFS filesystem on a GPT partition.

I followed the guide.  I don't believe to have done anything different  
this time around, aside installing the default boot loader using  
fdisk.  Perhaps there was a conflict, I'm not certain...

It works!


Thank you all,



Patrick Dorion


On Sep 30, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On 2011-Sep-29 14:22:45 -0400, Patrick Dorion  
> <dorionpatrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would greatly appreciate any input that could shed light on my
>> issue.  Essentially, a seemingly well-configured ZFS system residing
>> on a GPT partition is not detected by zfsloader.
>
> Your log shows you've correctly used gptzfsloader.
>
>> Fixit# cd /zpool/boot
>> Fixit# ls -l
>> drw------- 2 root 0 2 Feb 17 2011 zfs/
>>
>> Filesystem was taken from /dist/ on the livefs.  All of it is read-
>> only except /boot/zfs.
>
> Do you have /boot/zfs/zpool.cache on zpool?  That's the most obvious
> item that I don't see in your log.
>
> I presume you're aware of http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot
> If that's not the procedure you followed, you might like to cross-
> check the steps fou took against that page.
>
> -- 
> Peter Jeremy