Eir Nym <eir...@gmail.com> writes:
> On 8 July 2011 09:28, Berczi Gabor <free...@berczi.be> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 7, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
>>
>>>>> 2. Try to convince bios to boot from the disk of pool2.
>>>>
>>>> There is no disk with a singular ZFS pool.
>>>
>>> Any disk from bootable pool.
>>
>> Every disk contains two pools. And the BIOS sees only two (maybe three) of
>> them.
>>
>>>>> 3. You can possibly try deploying /boot/boot0 MBR selector code
>>>>> over disks of data pool. Supplied boot0 code can be used to
>>>>> choose another disk to jump to it during boot process and will
>>>>> remember the last choice.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not really sure how to do this with GPT. Should I use boot0 instead of
>>>> pmbr?
>>>
>>> boot0cfg is your old friend
>>
>> Cool, how do we get acquinted?
>>
>>> Actuall I think that code on that stages just tries to boot from the pool
>>> on the current disk.
>>
>> There are two pools on it...
>>
>
> gpart(8) can set 'bootme' flag for GPT partition, so there no problem
> to specify from which partition to boot.
Doesn't gptzfsboot probe all `freebsd-zfs' partitions irrespective of
their boot* attributes? A quick search shows why
$ fgrep -ir bootme sys/boot sys/cddl/boot
$ grep -wr 'gpt.*(' sys/boot sys/cddl/boot
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