boot from ZFS: which pool types use?

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Andriy Gapon 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.

However: setting this in boot.loader (or manually in loader prompt) is not 
enough to have bootable system

And this, I suppose, could be attacked to reduce possibility of 
user-configuration errors: not having a possibility to point at loader is a bit 
disappointing, you see ;) 


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