boot from ZFS: which pool types use?

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Thu Jul 4 11:56:40 UTC 2013


On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> on 04/07/2013 13:42 Dmitry Morozovsky said the following:
> > Can't find /boot/zfsloader
> 
> Does this file exist in the filesystem pointed to by bootfs property (if set)?

Arghh!!! I missed to set this one (however, this is the only zfs pool on the 
machine -- shouldn't the loader assume it is safe to try to boot off?)

Regarding your other questions:

Yes, this file exists.

> Are all ZFS disks visible by BIOS/firmware?

Yes, at least that's what I can conclude from BIOS messages (it's interesting 
to add debugging printf()s to gptzfsboot, as there is plenty space in it, but 
it would be next stage)

> Are there any other messages before the quoted one?

Nope, just the first '|' from rotating subrouting

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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