ZFS boot inside on the second partition inside a slice

[Zhihao Yuan]

I just redo everything, and changed the order of freebsd-zfs and
freebsd-swap. The "Read error" still happens!

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Zhihao Yuan <lichray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
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>> On 06/15/11 17:42, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I configured my disk layout according to
>>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition
>>>
>>> But I swapped the order of the freebsd-zfs and freebsd-swap. The 4.0G
>>> freebsd-swap partition appears first inside the slice.
>>> After that, I write zfsboot on both ada0s2 and ada0s2b, but the boot0
>>> gives me a "Read error".
>>
>> Where did your second slice start?  There can be a lot of reasons why it
>> gives Read error.
>
> After an NTFS partition of 12GB.
> This should be the problem with zfsboot, because if I use sysinstall
> to install a bootmgr, the boot gives me a "not UFS" error, which means
> the boot0 is done (am I right?).
>
>>
>> I personally recommend using GPT scheme instead of MBR, as you have a
>> dedicated partition for gptzfsboot, which is much cleaner than this
>> approach.
>>
>
> Yeah, yeah, I agree. I should not plan to play Windows games.
>
>> Cheers,
>> - --
>> Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>    http://www.delphij.net/
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Zhihao Yuan, nickname lichray
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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