gptzfsboot and 4k sector raidz

krad kraduk at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 08:08:23 UTC 2011


On 1 September 2011 07:11, Daniel Mayfield <dan at 3geeks.org> wrote:

> I just set this up on an Athlon64 machine I have w/ 4 WD EARS 2TB disks.  I
> followed the instructions here:
> http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/05/03/another-root-on-zfs-howto-optimized-for-4k-sector-drives/,
> but just building a single pool so three partitions per disk (boot, swap and
> zfs).  I'm using the mfsBSD image to do the boot code.  When I reboot to
> actually come up from ZFS, the loader spins for half a second and then the
> machine reboots.  I've seen a number of bug reports on gptzfsboot and 4k
> sector pools, but I never saw one fail so early.  What data would the ZFS
> people need to help fix this?
>
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try these boot bits they always work for me

http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/zfsboot/


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