Booting from freebsd-boot on gpt using zfs root on mbr

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Wed Apr 20 12:22:13 UTC 2011


On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:11:02 -0400
John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Saturday, April 09, 2011 4:32:50 pm Bruce Cran wrote:

> > When I enter "zroot:/boot/kernel/kernel" at the boot: prompt I get a
> > register dump followed by "BTX halted". Is there some way to get
> > this configuration to work?
> 
> Which prompt is this at (the gptzfsroot prompt or the loader prompt)?
> Also, can you grab a snapshot of the register dump?

Sorry, for some reason I was trying to load a kernel from the
gptzfsboot prompt, instead of zfsloader; the loader files hadn't been
installed properly, and once they were copied over again everything
started working using zroot:/boot/zfsloader.

-- 
Bruce Cran


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