sparc64/165025: [PATCH] zfsboot support for sparc64

[Marius Strobl]

The following reply was made to PR sparc64/165025; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marius Strobl <marius at alchemy.franken.de>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, gavin.mu at gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: sparc64/165025: [PATCH] zfsboot support for sparc64
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:16:19 +0100

 > Known Limitations:
 > 1. only zpool on a whole disk is supported, zfs boot from zpool in VTOC8 partitions may not work.
 
 Uhm, are you sure you didn't have (the remnants) of a VTOC label on
 the disk? I'd expect the firmware to refuse to boot from a disk not
 having one.
 
 > 2. boot from mirror/raidz is not supported due to limited dev environment.
 
 Could you also tackle these remaining bits or at least describe what
 it would take to support booting from a zpool in a VTOC label, mirror
 and raidz?
 
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > NA.
 > >Fix:
 > generic steps:
 > 1. build zfsboot and zfsloader
 > 2. create zpool on your disk
 > # zpool create tank /dev/<your disk, ie. ada0>
 > 3. export the zpool
 > # zpool export tank
 > 4. install zfsboot
 > # dd if=boot1 of=/dev/<your disk, ie. ada0> bs=512 skip=1 oseek=1 conv=notrunc
 
 Assuming there is a VTOC8 label, this could also be done using `gpart -b`,
 no?
 
 > 5. install zfsloader to ZFS Book Block location
 > # dd if=zfsloader of=/dev/<your disk, ie. ada0> bs=512 oseek=1024 conv=notrunc
 
 I think to vaguely remember there being a zfs command/way of writing
 a loader to that 3.5MB boot block area following the uberblock. Do
 you know what it is?
 
 In any case, nice work so far!
 
 Marius