boot from ZFS: which pool types use?

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Thu Jul 4 15:52:19 UTC 2013


On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:

> > > > Can't find /boot/zfsloader
> > > 
> > > Does this file exist in the filesystem pointed to by bootfs property (if
> > > set)?
> > 
> > Arghh!!! I missed to set this one (however, this is the only zfs pool on the
> > machine -- shouldn't the loader assume it is safe to try to boot off?)
> > 
> > Regarding your other questions:
> 
> That's weird. On all my machines I always set only vfs.root.mountfrom in
> /boot/loader.conf to point to dataset containing root fs.

In my last case, this was not enough.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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