ZFS root partition

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Jul 27 14:16:30 UTC 2010


On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:40:48 am Rob Farmer wrote:
> Is is possible to have a ZFS root with sparc64? I've used one of the
> guides on the wiki, http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot, on
> amd64 and it worked fine, but that doesn't seem to apply, since the
> /boot/pmbr and /boot/gptzfsboot files don't exist on sparc64.

Booting from a GPT isn't supported for OpenFirmware, so it doesn't work for 
sparc64.

-- 
John Baldwin


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