boot from ZFS: which pool types use?

[Teske, Devin]

On Jul 4, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
>>>> Really?
>>>> http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua/arhiv/2012/kyivbsd12-gapon-zfs.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
>>> 
>>> Hmm.  I do not see (maybe I'm missing something obvious) how can one select at 
>>> gptzfsboot or similar prompt the pool to load loader (not too much 'load's, 
>>> heh?) from...
>> 
>> Page 18.
>> 
>> FreeBSD/x86 boot
>> Default: pool1:ROOT/test1:/boot/zfsloader
>> boot: pool2:ROOT/knowngood:/boot/zfsloader.old
>> 
>> BTW, the syntax now is changed to use more familiar dataset names, e.g.
>> "pool2/ROOT/knowngood" instead of "pool2:ROOT/knowngood".
> 
> Wow.  This should be documented loud, then. Possibly in the prompt too.
> 
> Thank you very much for the insights :)
> 

I hope to pick up work again sometime soon on pool enumeration integration for the beastie menu.

Hard work is done. Was going to catch up with avg/mav sometime in the near future to work on previously-discussed enhancements so that we could (together) achieve simple submenus showing your possible choices for boot pool.
-- 
Devin

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