About /boot being a symlink to /efi/boot and ZFS

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:41 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
*snip*
>> 12.   Boot FreeBSD. Check that the loader version is 2.1. If not,
>>      you're not using the right loader. If the loader version
>>      is right but the loader cannot find a kernel, run 'lsdev'
>>      in the loader to list all partitions and try them until
>>      you find the right one. Note that part0: can be expected
>>      to be the EFI system partition, so you that only if you
>>      can't find a kernel on any other partitons. Remember to
>>      update the EFI boot manager accordingly.
> 
> Marcel, I got stuck in step 12:
> 
> Loading.: FreeBSD
> Starting: FreeBSD
> Consoles: EFI console
> 
> FreeBSD/ia64 EFI boot, Revision 2.1
> (mexas at mech-as221.men.bris.ac.uk, Tue Jan 26 23:36:05 GMT 2010)
> \
> can't load 'kernel'
> 
> Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
> OK
> 
> 
> What does "-dev part2:" do?

It selects part2: as the default partition to boot from.
This may not be the partition in which you have your
FreeBSD root partition.

To find your root partition, do the following:
	OK set currdev=part1:
	OK ls /boot

If "ls" lists kernel and loader.conf, you have found
your root partition. If using part1: gives you an
error or something else, replace part1: with the next
available partition.

FYI,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com