Creating a bootable ZFS disk?
Shane Ambler
BSD at ShaneWare.Biz
Sun Dec 28 03:25:51 UTC 2014
On 28/12/2014 01:07, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
> I’m trying to create a new ZFS pool from an existing one (the new
> one is 4k aligned and the old one is legacy 512b).
>
> But, I can’t get it to boot! Not sure what I’m doing wrong.
>
> I thought I could create the new pool, and use ‘zfs send/recv’ to
> copythe existing pool and then boot onto the new disk, but the kernel
> doesn’t load… :(.
>
> Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?
> Here’s my recipe:
>
> # gpart create -s gpt diskid/DISK-NEW-DISK
> # gpart add -s 64K -t freebsd-boot diskid/DISK-NEW-DISK
> # gpart add -t 8G freebsd-swap diskid/DISK-NEW-DISK
> # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs diskid/DISK-NEW-DISK
> # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 diskid/DISK-NEW-DISK
>
> # zfs create copy /dev/diskid/DISK-NEW-DISKp3
> # zfs send -R oldpool at 20141226 | zfs receive -duvF copy
> # zpool set bootfs=copy/ROOT/default copy
>
Are you sure diskid/DISK-NEW-DISK is correct?
Do you have /dev/diskid/ ? Do you mean /dev/gpt/ ?
DISK-NEW-DISK - variable name should have a $ in front? $DISK-NEW-DISK
Check partition table with gpart show
Is the bios set to boot from this disk?
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