ZFS boot inside on the second partition inside a slice

[Zhihao Yuan]

I wish I can get a binary version... Because I have no working FreeBSD
box now....

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:35 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:45:41 am Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>> Exactly. The MFCed ZFSv28 is different from any patch maintained by
>> mm at . Maybe some untested changes involved.
>
> Can you try reverting this change:
>
> Author: jhb
> Date: Thu Apr 28 17:44:24 2011
> New Revision: 221177
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/221177
>
> Log:
>  Due to space constraints, the UFS boot2 and boot1 use an evil hack where
>  boot2 calls back into boot1 to perform disk reads.  The ZFS MBR boot blocks
>  do not have the same space constraints, so remove this hack for ZFS.
>  While here, remove commented out code to support C/H/S addressing from
>  zfsldr.  The ZFS and GPT bootstraps always just use EDD LBA addressing.
>
>  MFC after:    2 weeks
>
> Modified:
>  head/sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile
>  head/sys/boot/i386/common/drv.c
>  head/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/Makefile
>  head/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/zfsldr.S
>
> --
> John Baldwin
>



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