ZFS boot inside on the second partition inside a slice

[Zhihao Yuan]

If this problem can not be solved, I probably have to redo everything
to use GPT-based solution and lose my Windows.............

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:37 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Friday, June 17, 2011 1:06:22 pm Henri Hennebert wrote:
>> On 06/16/2011 19:35, John Baldwin wrote:
>> > On Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:45:41 am Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>> >> Exactly. The MFCed ZFSv28 is different from any patch maintained by
>> >> mm at . Maybe some untested changes involved.
>> >
>> > Can you try reverting this change:
>> >
>> > Author: jhb
>> > Date: Thu Apr 28 17:44:24 2011
>> > New Revision: 221177
>> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/221177
>> >
>> > Log:
>> >   Due to space constraints, the UFS boot2 and boot1 use an evil hack where
>> >   boot2 calls back into boot1 to perform disk reads.  The ZFS MBR boot blocks
>> >   do not have the same space constraints, so remove this hack for ZFS.
>> >   While here, remove commented out code to support C/H/S addressing from
>> >   zfsldr.  The ZFS and GPT bootstraps always just use EDD LBA addressing.
>> >
>> >   MFC after:    2 weeks
>> >
>> > Modified:
>> >   head/sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile
>> >   head/sys/boot/i386/common/drv.c
>> >   head/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/Makefile
>> >   head/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/zfsldr.S
>> >
>> I try with this revision (221177) reverted to no avail:
>> same error - 'read error'
>
> Hmm, ok.  No other ideas off the top of my head.
>
> --
> John Baldwin
>



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