Root on zfs (stable9) - how to make it bootable

[David Demelier]

There are a lot of example in gpart(8) man page. You should use it

I think you should do something like

gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada0
gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0

(The second assume that you have a freebsd-boot as first index in ada0)

Cheers,



2013/2/22 uki <ukaszg at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I want to install freebsd9 (stable) on zfs root, unfortunately my bios
> is unable to recognize GPT discs.
> I'm using MBR disc, with BSD slice (on mbr index 4) containing
> freebsd-zfs filesystem.
>
> I've no idea how to make it bootable, I've tried using:
>
>   zpool export sys
>   dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ada0s4 count=1
>   dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ada0s4a skip=1 seek=1024
>   zpool import sys
>
>
> When I select F4 (slice with zfs) whilst booting the computer just turns
> off.
> How do I make it boot? Do I need freebsd-boot slice?
>
> I have set bootfs property on pool, and added vfs.root.mountfrom to
> loader.conf.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Łukasz Gruner
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-- 
Demelier David