[Bug 226714] zfsboot(8) erroneously suggests creating a BSD label

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Wed Mar 28 02:06:14 UTC 2018


https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226714

--- Comment #7 from vas at mpeks.tomsk.su ---
(In reply to Andriy Gapon from comment #4)
> Someone needs to follow them exactly and to check what happens

Both the wiki links have multiple issues. If I were given the power, I would
merge them into one article, and rewrite it thoroughly in the spirit of
https://victor-sudakov.dreamwidth.org/437590.html 

> It is not necessary to create a bsdlabel and a partition within it for ZFS, 
> but it can be done if so desired.

Eugene says that the presence of a bsdlabel prevents zfsboot from detecting the
bootable zpool, I have no reason to disbelieve him.

"gpart create -s BSD" should be eliminated from everywhere.

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