[indiana-discuss] A Couple of Newbie Questions

[James Cornell]

Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, James Cornell wrote:
>
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>> Hi Kevin.  There's a long document regarding root zfs that I vaguely 
>> remember which was before it was integrated saying that you'd create a 
>> bootstrap ufs partition to house grub and boot the rpool from there, 
>> using 99% of the rest of the space on the pool.
>>     
>
> Well, right after sending my previous reply, I think I might have found 
> it.  Is:
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> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/zfsboot-manual/
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> the document you were thinking of?
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>
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Yeah this is the one, if you've been reading other replies grub does zfs 
root in B87+.  There's a few hacks you need to deploy to get it working 
from the live environment, which I have yet to try as I just use B90 and 
root zfs using the old installer, and it seems to work pretty well, even 
with external USB disks.

James