ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:06:12AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
>   On 16-8-2010 20:14, Roland Smith wrote:
> > It could be that newfs is overwriting the partition table.
> > Can you post the output of 'gpart show<device>' and 'bsdlabel<device>s1'?
> westmark# gpart show ad8
> =>       63  976773105  ad8  MBR  (466G)
>           63  976773105    1  freebsd  [active]  (466G)
> 
> westmark# bsdlabel ad8s1
> # /dev/ad8s1:
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>    a:  2097152        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0
>    b: 12582912  2097152      swap
>    c: 976773105        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, 
> don't edit
>    d: 16777216 14680064    4.2BSD        0     0     0
>    e: 41943040 31457280    4.2BSD        0     0     0
>    f: 903372785 73400320    4.2BSD        0     0     0
> westmark#

Ok. That looks good.
 
> I dumped/restored the system to ad8 yesterday and booted from it.
> The system *did* boot but (alas) the /dev/ads1a(f) slices were mounted. 
> So, the system loaded the *old* root partitions (from the first drive). 
> After googling and reading I think I need *boot0cfg* but I'm a bit scary 
> to ruin my new boot (ad8) drive.

:-)

You can use either boot0cfg or fdisk. The first option gives you the splash
screen with the menu choice between normal booting, single user etc. You can
install this with 'boot0cfg -B ad8'. The boot block installed by 'fdisk -B
ad8' does not give you the menu, but gives you a boot prompt which defaults to
normal booting after a couple of seconds. You can still boot into single mode
with the boot prompt.

Both methods only affect the boot block, they do not change the slice table.

> So, what is the exact syntax to make my system not only boot from ad8, 
> but also mount the /deb/ad8s1 slice as root slice?

  * Install one of the boot blocks, as mentioned above.
  * Check with 'fdisk ad8' if the first slice is active. If not, run 
    'fdisk -a ad8'.
  * You'll need to change /etc/fstab on ad8s1a! Best do this before
    rebooting. It's easier. :-)
  * Make sure that /boot/ is there and populated on ad8s1a!

Then you can re-boot, and make ad8 the first device to boot from in the
BIOS. From that point on, according to boot(8), it should work.

Good luck!

Roland
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