Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-04 Thread krad
2010/1/4 Randal L. Schwartz > > "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: > > > "krad" == krad writes: > krad> make sure you dont export the pool after you have copied the zpool > cache > krad> onto the zfs root fs, as that will break everything. > > Randal> Hmm. But doesn't executing a s

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: > "krad" == krad writes: krad> make sure you dont export the pool after you have copied the zpool cache krad> onto the zfs root fs, as that will break everything. Randal> Hmm. But doesn't executing a shutdown automatically export everythign? Ra

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "krad" == krad writes: krad> make sure you dont export the pool after you have copied the zpool cache krad> onto the zfs root fs, as that will break everything. Hmm. But doesn't executing a shutdown automatically export everythign? if not, how is there ever a clean shutdown? :) -- Ran

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread krad
2010/1/3 Randal L. Schwartz > > "Manolis" == Manolis Kiagias writes: > > Manolis> Yes. And I used an IDE disk instead of the SCSI usually suggested > by > Manolis> Vmware so it was ad0 for me. I doubt this makes any difference. > > Wow. Crap. Why does this hate me so? :( > > Lemme try agai

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Manolis" == Manolis Kiagias writes: Manolis> Yes. And I used an IDE disk instead of the SCSI usually suggested by Manolis> Vmware so it was ad0 for me. I doubt this makes any difference. Wow. Crap. Why does this hate me so? :( Lemme try again with IDE. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehe

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 03/01/2010 8:38 μ.μ., Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Manolis" == Manolis Kiagias writes: >> > Manolis> I've tried the exact steps on vmware fusion (8.0-RELEASE amd64) and > Manolis> didn't notice anything. Did you get any error messages in any of the > Manolis> commands show

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Manolis" == Manolis Kiagias writes: Manolis> I've tried the exact steps on vmware fusion (8.0-RELEASE amd64) and Manolis> didn't notice anything. Did you get any error messages in any of the Manolis> commands shown in the wiki? No error messages at all. Of course, for vmware, I had to us

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 03/01/2010 7:04 μ.μ., Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > I followed the instructions on > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot > > precisely (annoying, because I can't cut and paste :) on both my VMWare > machine locally and on a VPS from ArpNetworks.com. In both cases, when > booting from