ZFS booting without partitions

[Adam McDougall]

I'm thinking that too.  I spent some time taking stabs at figuring it 
out yesterday but didn't get anywhere useful.  I did try compiling the 
-current src/sys/boot tree on 7.2 after a couple header tweaks to make 
it compile but the loader still didn't work.  The working loader is the 
same file size as the broken loader unless it was compiled on i386 and 
then it is ~30k bigger for some reason (it shrinks to the same size as 
the rest if I force it to use the same 32bit compilation flags as used 
on amd64).  Just mentioning this in case it saves someone else some 
time.  I'm real pleased it works at all.

Kip Macy wrote:
> Odds are that there are more changes that were made in HEAD to the
> loader that need to be MFC'd.
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> -Kip
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> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Alberto Villa <villa.alberto at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Henri Hennebert <hlh at restart.be> wrote:
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>>> This is the file /boot/loader from 7.2-STABLE which is wrong.
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>>> You can find a copy from 8.0-CURRENT and a script that I tested on a USB
>>> key) and is running for me:
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>> replacing /boot/loader with yours did the job
>> thanks!
>> --
>> Alberto Villa <villa.alberto at gmail.com>
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