zfs booting feedback

[Kurt Lidl]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:31:35PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> 
> On Jul 7, 2012, at 22:54 , Kurt Lidl wrote:
> > I built a full 9.0-stable distribution on Friday night, and got to play
> > with installing it on a spare Netra T1-105 today.  Mostly I was
> > interested in testing out the integrated ZFS boot support that
> > was commited recently.
> > 
> > First of all -- it works!  Thanks very much to all who made it possible!
> 
>   On this front, I'm trying to find a FreeBSD sparc64 stable build to install
> on a v240 I have for testing.  I've not found it easily by googling, so if 
> someone on the list could point me to sparc64 nightly's of the 9.0-STABLE
> branch, or if you. Kurt, could make the ISO you built and have working
> available, I'd very much appreciate it.
> 
>   I'm looking forward to experimenting with FreeBSD sparc64, and zfs.
> I'm a zfs newbie.  :-)

I put the iso I built, along with a checksum file for it, and the script
that I used for installing all the bit here:

	http://www.pix.net/ftp/pub/freebsd/

You might want to fiddle with the size of the ZFS partition that the
script creates.  I have Sun "18GB" drives, so I just told it use 12GB
as ZFS, and the rest as swap.

-Kurt