Booting from ZFS - fail.

[Stefan Lambrev]

Hi,

I have tried with 5G partitions: gpart add -s 5g -a 4k -t freebsd-zfs -l
disk0 ada0 ( I have four disks with raidz)
Same issue ... I'm little puzzled as I know people runnign the same
configuration on same HW except the HDDs.
Even firmware versions are the same.



On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at yandex.ru>
wrote:

> On 07.10.2014 11:14, Stefan Lambrev wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have tested with a mirror from just 2x3TB HDDs but with no difference.
> > Though the layout of the partitions was the same (e.g. the smallest
> > partition I have tried is 2.7TB):
> >
> > gpart show ada0 (This is valid for all four disks)
> > =>        34  5860533101  ada0  GPT  (2.7T)
> >           34           6        - free -  (3.0K)
> >           40         512     1  freebsd-boot  (256K)
> >          552  5860532576     2  freebsd-zfs  [bootme]  (2.7T)
> >   5860533128           7        - free -  (3.5K)
>
> Hi,
>
> The problem might be in your BIOS, probably if you create ZFS pool on
> small partitions, then it will boot.
>
> Also bootme/bootonce attributes work only with gptboot and freebsd-ufs
> partitions.
>
> --
> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
>