Creating a bootable ZFS disk?

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Steven Hartland wrote:

>
> 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?

All too possible.  BIOS authoring seems to be what people too bitter to 
continue being supervillains or cable TV tech support take up.

For testing the possibly-automatic gpart alignment, gnop might work.