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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