ZFS boot inside on the second partition inside a slice

[Zhihao Yuan]

Exactly. The MFCed ZFSv28 is different from any patch maintained by
mm at . Maybe some untested changes involved.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Henri Hennebert <hlh at restart.be> wrote:
> On 06/16/2011 07:32, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>>
>> I just redo everything, and changed the order of freebsd-zfs and
>> freebsd-swap. The "Read error" still happens!
>
> Just a me too.
>
> Everything was working great with zfsboot from 8.2-RELEASE + a patch
> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/153552).
>
> As I update to 8.2-STABLE after v28 MFC, I have to write a new zfsboot to be
> allowed to upgrade my pool. I get the "Read Error" after that.
>
> PS - same comfig, a netboot with windows7 on first partition - so I can't
> switch to gpt.
>
> Henri
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Zhihao Yuan<lichray at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Xin LI<delphij at delphij.net>  wrote:
>>>>
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>>>> On 06/15/11 17:42, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I configured my disk layout according to
>>>>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition
>>>>>
>>>>> But I swapped the order of the freebsd-zfs and freebsd-swap. The 4.0G
>>>>> freebsd-swap partition appears first inside the slice.
>>>>> After that, I write zfsboot on both ada0s2 and ada0s2b, but the boot0
>>>>> gives me a "Read error".
>>>>
>>>> Where did your second slice start?  There can be a lot of reasons why it
>>>> gives Read error.
>>>
>>> After an NTFS partition of 12GB.
>>> This should be the problem with zfsboot, because if I use sysinstall
>>> to install a bootmgr, the boot gives me a "not UFS" error, which means
>>> the boot0 is done (am I right?).
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I personally recommend using GPT scheme instead of MBR, as you have a
>>>> dedicated partition for gptzfsboot, which is much cleaner than this
>>>> approach.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, yeah, I agree. I should not plan to play Windows games.
>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> - --
>>>> Xin LI<delphij at delphij.net>      http://www.delphij.net/
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