ZFS rootfs on G5 970MP

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On Mar 2, 2012, at 10:29 AM, Lucas Yamanishi wrote:

> Is it possible?
>
> I tried using 9.0-RELEASE.  I followed the UFSBoot guide from the wiki
> using a UFS /bootdir slice.  Everything was done to the T.  zfs and
> opensolaris modules were specified in loader.conf.  Unfortunately  
> when I
> rebooted I got this error:
>
> <pre>
> Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []...
> Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 2: unknown file system.
>
> Loader variables:
>  vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs:zroot
> </pre>
>
> At this point I've settled for a UFS root with ZFS /var, /tmp, and / 
> usr
> sub-hierarchies.  Sorry, that means no logs, no kbd.

It looks like there's a bug in the ppc64 loader(8) that prevents  
module preload from working properly. I'll see if I can track it down,  
but am very short on time at the moment (help appreciated).
-Nathan