'kernel' not found - ZFS on GPT boot

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at acm.org
Fri Sep 30 10:46:49 UTC 2011


On 2011-Sep-29 14:22:45 -0400, Patrick Dorion <dorionpatrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>I would greatly appreciate any input that could shed light on my  
>issue.  Essentially, a seemingly well-configured ZFS system residing  
>on a GPT partition is not detected by zfsloader.

Your log shows you've correctly used gptzfsloader.

>Fixit# cd /zpool/boot
>Fixit# ls -l
>drw------- 2 root 0 2 Feb 17 2011 zfs/
>
>Filesystem was taken from /dist/ on the livefs.  All of it is read- 
>only except /boot/zfs.

Do you have /boot/zfs/zpool.cache on zpool?  That's the most obvious
item that I don't see in your log.

I presume you're aware of http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot
If that's not the procedure you followed, you might like to cross-
check the steps fou took against that page.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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