On Sun, 12 May 2013 23:11+0200, Roland van Laar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I followed these[1] step up to the Finishing touches.
> I'm using a 9.1 Release.
>
> After the install I go into the shell and /mnt is empty.
> The mount command shows that the zfs partitions are mounted.
> When I reboot the system it can't find the bootloader.
>
> What can I do to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roland van Laar
>
> [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE
Looking through the wiki notes I would do a couple of things in a
different way.
Since you're running 9.1-RELEASE you should take into account the need
for the /boot/zfs/zpool.cache file until 9.2-RELEASE exist or you
switch to the latest 9-STABLE.
Create your zpool using a command like this one:
zpool create -o cachefile=/tmp/zpool.cache -m /tmp/zroot zroot /dev/gpt/disk0
Copy the /tmp/zpool.cache file to /tmp/zroot/boot/zfs/zpool.cache, or
in your case to /mnt/boot/zfs/zpool.cache after extracting the base
and kernel stuff.
In the wiki section Finishing touches, perform step 4 before step 3.
The final command missing in step 3 should be zfs unmount -a once
more. Avoid step 5 at all cost!
Maybe this recipe is easier to follow, it sure works for 9.0-RELEASE
and 9.1-RELEASE, I only hope you're happy typing long commands, and
yes, command line editing is available in the shell:
https://ximalas.info/2011/10/17/zfs-root-fs-on-freebsd-9-0/
Due to advances in hard drive technology, for the worse I'm afraid,
i.e. 4K disk blocks, I wouldn't bother enabling compression on any ZFS
file systems. I might change my blog posts to reflect this stop gap.
If you do happen to have 4K drives, you might want to check out this
blog post:
https://ximalas.info/2012/01/11/new-server-and-first-attempt-at-running-freebsdamd64-with-zfs-for-all-storage/
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