[rescue] OS for ZFS?

[Cory Smelosky]

On 04/03/2013 08:34 PM, Scott Newell wrote:
>
> At 09:20 PM 3/31/2013, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>> On 31 Mar 2013, at 21:35, Scott Newell wrote:
>>> Googling around a bit, I wonder...maybe I could set up a small ufs
>>> boot partition and have the root filesystem zfs?
>>
>> You might be able to with a bit of a hack.  You would need to modify
>> initscripts I think and then jump to the secondary rootfs.
>
> Almost there!  I followed the recipe from
> <http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=27728>http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=27728
>
>
> Which seems to work, mostly.  But when I try and boot the zfs root
> disk, it traps once, then boots the disk!  (It boots the first time
> with a standard non-zfs installation on my other drive.)

That's odd.

>
> Here's the mount:
>
>
> zroot on / (zfs, local, nfsv4acls)
> devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
> zroot/data on /data (zfs, local, nfsv4acls)
> zroot/tmp on /tmp (zfs, local, nfsv4acls)
> zroot/usr on /usr (zfs, local, nfsv4acls)
> zroot/var on /var (zfs, local, nfsv4acls)

Oooooh.

>
>
> And the boot:
>
>
> Rebooting with command: boot disk1
> Boot device: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/disk at 1,0  File and args:
> Trap 3e
> {0} ok boot disk1
> Boot device: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/disk at 1,0  File and args:
>
>   >> FreeBSD/sparc64 boot block
>      Boot path:   /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/disk at 1,0:a
>      Boot loader: /boot/loader
> Consoles: Open Firmware console
>
> Booting with sun4u support.
>
> FreeBSD/sparc64 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0
> (root at araz.cse.buffalo.edu, Mon Apr  9 23:14:08 UTC 2012)
> bootpath="/pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3/disk at 1,0:a"
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> /boot/kernel/kernel data=0xa0b248+0x6e830 syms=[0x8+0xadc40+0x8+0xa05cc]
> /boot/kernel/zfs.ko text=0x20ba50 data=0x5808+0x16eb0
> syms=[0x8+0x168a8+0x8+0x11384]

I'm used to it using opensolaris.ko instead of zfs.ko. ;)

>
>
>
> Now the battery is dead in this box, so maybe that's part of the
> problem.  I'll move the disks, cpus, and ram over to a known good box
> next week.

The battery in my router is dead, too. ;)

>
> Thanks for all the advice!
>


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