few ideas for zfsloader (boot environments)

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Thu May 13 05:09:28 UTC 2010


on 30/04/2010 00:15 Navdeep Parhar said the following:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 07:29:58PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> BTW, it's already possible to use FreeBSD+ZFS+GRUB and have this ability (in some
>> form).  But it would great to have that "natively".
>>
>> Couple of useful links:
>> http://grub.enbug.org/GRUB2FreeBSDZFS
> 
> ^^^^ Oh, and I hope you weren't crediting me for any of the functionality
> explained at the link above..?  I have nothing to do with it - it's all
> someone else's work.  In fact, I'm not too fond of the kfreebsd,
> kfreebsd_module, ...  style of booting FreeBSD from GRUB2 personally.

Oops, I got slightly confused there.
BTW, it seems that ZFS support is not 'officially' in GRUB2 yet and you have to
patch it?

>> http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg15161.html
> 
> The patch in this email is the only functionality I've ever offered to the
> GRUB project.

And that's a very useful one, IMO.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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