Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

George Liaskos geo.liaskos at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 01:29:09 UTC 2010


I had the same issue because i forgot to copy the zpool.cache under
/zroot/boot/zfs.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Ross Penner <ross.penner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a system using ZFS as the root filesystem. I
> followed this guide: (http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot).
> Everything went swimmingly until I rebooted and the system failed to
> load.
>
> output:
>
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> (root@, Mon Jan 25 13:03:11 UTC 2010)
> \
> can't load 'kernel'
>
> Type '?' for a list of command, 'help' for more detailed help.
> OK
>
>
> I used the memstick 8.0-Release. Can anybody suggest what could have
> gone wrong, or how I could find out what could have gone wrong?
>
> Thank you for any help
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