ZFS on MBR does not boot at all

[demelier.david at gmail.com]

Le dimanche 5 mai 2013 22:20:43 Giorgos Keramidas a écrit :
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:29:18 +0200, David Demelier 
<demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2013/4/18 David Demelier <demelier.david at gmail.com>:
> >> Hello,
> >> I would like to use ZFS over MBR for multiboot purposes. I've followed
> >> that guide https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition but it
> >> does not boot at all. The loader does not show up after choosing
> >> FreeBSD in the boot0 loader.
> >> 
> >> The _ prompt appears but nothing starts. I've found many people over
> >> the web having the same problem but unfortunately no one found a
> >> solution.
> >> 
> >> I think the offensive commands are ones with dd and zfsboot.
> >> Regards,
> > 
> > So someone told me on IRC that the main problem was that I've put my
> > partition swap as first partition in the FreeBSD slice and zfsboot
> > *requires* that the zfs partition is the first.
> > 
> > Can someone with right access to the wiki page may add a notice about
> > this issue on https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition
> > please?
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Thanks for following up with what the real problem was.  I updated the
> Wiki to include this:
> 
>     Note that partition order is important. It seems that zfsboot
>     requires the freebsd-zfs partition to be the first, so make sure you
>     add if first, before your swap partition.

Thank you :)

Regards,