ZFS rootfs on G5 970MP

[Super Bisquit]

Situations permitting, I may be able to setup a ppc64 machine through qemu
for such. Probably will be asking Aurelian about the command line boot
sequence.
Are there any performance issues I need to know?
You did ask for help.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>wrote:

> It's some very low-level bug in the boot loader -> kernel init transition,
> so kdb and such are unlikely to be helpful.
> -Nathan
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Lucas Yamanishi wrote:
>
>  I have to bring up another machine next week.  I was going to just dd
>> the disk, but I'll try again if it'll be any help.
>>
>> Are there any kdb commands I should run when I get there?
>>
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>> On 03/02/2012 04:13 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
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