Root on ZFS & GPT and boot to ufs partition

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 23 16:22:21 UTC 2012


on 23/01/2012 16:46 Andrey Fesenko said the following:
> System install for manual http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot
> only + freebsd-ufs (ada0p2)
>> uname -a
> FreeBSD beastie.mydomain.local 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0
> r229812: Mon Jan  9 19:08:10 MSK 2012
> andrey at beastie.mydomain.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/W_BOOK  amd64
>> gpart show
> =>       34  625142381  ada0  GPT  (298G)
>          34        128     1  freebsd-boot  (64k)
>         162   26621952     2  freebsd-ufs  (12G)
>    26622114    8388608     3  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
>    35010722  590131693     4  freebsd-zfs  (281G)
> boot code MBR (pmbr) and gptzfsboot loader

As far as I remember gpt*zfs*boot boots only ZFS.
Also, gptzfsboot is not a loader in the FreeBSD terminology, it's a (boot2-like)
boot block.  loader and zfsloader are loaders.

> In the old loader was F1,F2,F3.... new no :(
> 
> Is there a way to boot system freebsd-ufs (ada0p2)


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Andriy Gapon


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