ZFS root on MB Intel S3420GP

George Kontostanos gkontos.mail at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 13:54:36 UTC 2011


There is a nice guide in the WIKI regarding how to install your system with
ZFS on root.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ2

In any case don't configure the raid in your controller and let ZFS take
care of this.

Regards,

2011/4/17 Lystopad Olexandr <laa at laa.zp.ua>

> Hi!
>
> I have this hardware:
>
> smbios.system.maker="Intel Corporation"
> smbios.system.product="S3420GP"
>
> with 4G ram and 4x WD 500G drives.
>
> I try both raids in the bios, in both cases i try raid 10.
> I.e. I have 1Tb ar0 device.
>
> After reading http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ1 I
> try to install FreeBSD on this box, but I change ad0..ad1.. to my
> ar0 device. I try to have zfs on intel raid10.
>
> All commands run successfully, but after reboot I have:
>
> gptzfsboot no zfs pools located: can't boot
>
> What mistake I made?
>
> What best solution with my hardware exist?
>
> --
>  Lystopad Olexandr
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