Creating a bootable ZFS disk?

[Steven Hartland]

On 28/12/2014 19:44, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
>
>> On 27 Dec 2014, at 22:57, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
>>>
>>>> I only have 'zfs_load=?YES?? in my /boot/loader.conf. I?m hoping 
>>>> the problem is that I missed the ?-a4k? on the ?gpart add?. I?m 
>>>> starting again and will report back whether it now works or not! :).
>>>
>>> Misalignment just makes for slow performance, particularly on writes.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, fixed. With -a4k is it now booting. Looks like the partitions 
>> weren?t aligned!
>
> Alignment alone should not have fixed it.  While misaligned drives 
> give poor performance, they should still work.

Indeed, possibly a bad BIOS?

     Regards
     Steve