gptzfsboot and RELENG_7

Alberto Villa villa.alberto at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 16:49:50 UTC 2009


On Monday 08 June 2009 17:44:40 Dan Naumov wrote:
> Several posts made to this list AFTER the zfs v13 MFC to RELENG_7
> indicated that even after that MFC, you still needed gptzfsboot from
> 8-CURRENT to be able to boot from a full ZFS system. Is this not the
> case? I have a 7.2-STABLE built on May 30 and I do not have gptzfsboot
> in my /boot, only gptboot. I didn't make any changes to the stock
> Makefiles and used GENERIC kernel config. Do I need to adjust some
> options for gptzfsboot to get built?

no, it's /boot/loader from 8-current which is needed (the one shared on this 
list works perfectly for me)
to build your system with zfs boot support just add LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=yes 
to /etc/make.conf
-- 
Alberto Villa <villa.alberto at gmail.com>


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