Booting from ZFS raidz

Nathanael Hoyle nhoyle at hoyletech.com
Thu Apr 16 11:28:11 PDT 2009


Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Ollivier Robert:
>   
>> with tank containing a raidz array, zpool refuses to set the property,
>> saying it is not available.  Using the same commandline on a mirror works.
>>     
>
> BTW all messages I've found on this subject assume (like the script does)
> that one can do installworld/installkernel.
>
> I can setup the whole gpt thing from livefs, even extracting all dists on
> the newly zfs pool manually by playing with livefs/dvd1 but it can not boot
> afterwards because / can not be found.
>
> I must have missed something...  I long for pcbsd setup with zfs support in
> fact I think :(
>   
Ok, I screwed up.  Not on my usual workstation and my email client 
mis-threaded discussions.  I now realize you were referring to the 
experimental capabilities that Doug has been working on; my apologies 
for jumping the gun with the "can't do that" response.

-Nathanael


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