Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

[krad]

2010/1/26 Ross Penner <ross.penner at gmail.com>

> That seems to have been the problem.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:29 PM, George Liaskos <geo.liaskos at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I had the same issue because i forgot to copy the zpool.cache under
> > /zroot/boot/zfs.
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Ross Penner <ross.penner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I'm trying to set up a system using ZFS as the root filesystem. I
> >> followed this guide: (http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot).
> >> Everything went swimmingly until I rebooted and the system failed to
> >> load.
> >>
> >> output:
> >>
> >> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> >> (root@, Mon Jan 25 13:03:11 UTC 2010)
> >> \
> >> can't load 'kernel'
> >>
> >> Type '?' for a list of command, 'help' for more detailed help.
> >> OK
> >>
> >>
> >> I used the memstick 8.0-Release. Can anybody suggest what could have
> >> gone wrong, or how I could find out what could have gone wrong?
> >>
> >> Thank you for any help
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once you have generated the zpool.cache never never never export the boot
pool again. Exporting isnt the same as unmounting (a common misconception).
If you do export it the pool will become unbootable.