ZFS on MBR does not boot at all

David Demelier demelier.david at gmail.com
Mon Apr 29 11:29:20 UTC 2013


2013/4/18 David Demelier <demelier.david at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to use ZFS over MBR for multiboot purposes. I've followed
> that guide https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition but it
> does not boot at all. The loader does not show up after choosing
> FreeBSD in the boot0 loader.
>
> The _ prompt appears but nothing starts. I've found many people over
> the web having the same problem but unfortunately no one found a
> solution.
>
> I think the offensive commands are ones with dd and zfsboot.
>
> Regards,
>

So someone told me on IRC that the main problem was that I've put my
partition swap as first partition in the FreeBSD slice and zfsboot
*requires* that the zfs partition is the first.

Can someone with right access to the wiki page may add a notice about
this issue on https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition
please?

Regards,

--
Demelier David


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