ZFS booting without partitions

Enrico M. enricom at teppisti.it
Mon Jun 1 17:48:59 UTC 2009


On Monday 01 June 2009 12:06:18 Henri Hennebert wrote:
> Lorenzo Perone wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried hard... but without success ;(
> >
> > the result is, when choosing the disk with the zfs boot
> > sectors in it (in my case F5, which goes to ad6), the kernel
> > is not found. the console shows:
> >
> > forth not found
> > definitions not found
> > only not found
> > (the above repeated several times)
>
> This is the file /boot/loader from 7.2-STABLE which is wrong.
>
> You can find a copy from 8.0-CURRENT and a script that I tested on a USB
> key) and is running for me:
>
> http://verbier.restart.be/xfer/boot-zfs/

Thanks!
I replaced /boot/loader with the file from your link.
Now the system boot.


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