ZFS root partition

[Rob Farmer]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:45 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.

Okay, so I looked at some of the non-GPT examples on the
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS page, and they still reference files
that don't exist for sparc64, like /boot/boot and /boot/boot0. I don't
really know much about sparc64 - I bought a cheap box off ebay more as
a curiosity than anything else - what is the proper way to partition
and install a bootloader on sparc64 without sysinstall? Everything I
can find online seems to be i386/amd64 centric.

Thanks,
-- 
Rob Farmer

>
> --
> John Baldwin
>