On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:32:54AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2009 5:07:49 pm Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have installed 8.0-BETA2 amd64 on ZFS root with GPT. I made addition > > partition and > > made new ZFS pool, builded and installed i386 world and kernel to this > > pool. > > So, is there some way to select from which partition i want to boot? > > Not currently unless you hardcode a specific partition in /boot.config. (You > may need a patch from jhay@ to fix the parsing of that file though.) I > believe someone (can't recall who) has some changes in a p4 branch to extend > gptboot to support a fancier interface with a menu of possible partitions, > etc.
My patch is only for gptboot (ufs partitions). From what I looked at gptzfsboot, it only looks at the first pool. You can boot from different filesystems inside a pool though. You can set that with zpool set bootfs=pool/dataset John -- John Hay -- j...@meraka.csir.co.za / j...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
