boot from ZFS: which pool types use?
Andriy Gapon
avg at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 4 15:55:42 UTC 2013
on 04/07/2013 18:52 Dmitry Morozovsky said the following:
> 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.
>
And this is redundant if bootfs is correctly set.
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Andriy Gapon
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