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Yeah! Problem solved! Thanks!

I previously followed something similar to https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS to have boot/root on ZFS on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. Note that (as per the guide) /var/empty was a separate ZFS filesystem with readonly=on. I've recently installed a fresh 10.0-RELEASE, and used good ol' cp -R ... to...

Just a very late update... installed 10.0-RELEASE via stock installer with mirrored ZFS over MBR on a pair of USB sticks. Works like a charm! Boot time is almost comparable to the 10.0-RELEASE installer memory stick image it was installed from. Alvin

I know I shouldn't complain about a great piece of free software like FreeBSD, but a 3-month window for an upgrade-or-else (Dec 2012 for 9.1-RELEASE to Mar 2013 for 9.0-RELEASE EOL)? I know it's been the general practice for normal, non-extended support. But it also makes it so much harder to...

9.0-RELEASE, possibly. But 9.0-RELEASE-p7 (security update via freebsd-update) should not be EOL. The other threads are about problems with rebuilding world from 9.0 to 9.1, or recompiling pkg after upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1. I'm looking for some insight to my options, like: This is how you...

Hi, I ran pkg_upgrade -a (from sysutils/bsdadminscripts) on a 9.0-RELEASE-p7 amd64, and afterwards majority of the updated packages caused error when executed, for example: /usr/local/bin/bash: Undefined symbol "_ThreadRuneLocale" I read online that others have had problems when building or...

@HarryE, I tried booting on a different machine, it's still slow. @wblock, thanks. I'll remember that next time I create another one.

Just a very late update... I tried turning off USB legacy in BIOS, and the USB drives are not seen by BIOS (not bootable at all) Apparently I need USB legacy enabled to boot a USB 2.0 flash drive...

After reading the RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror wiki page, I installed the 9.0-RELEASE-amd64 on a pair of USB sticks with swap inside the ZFS and my own set of ZFS filesystems. (This was done on an Intel Atom N330 motherboard, if it matters) However, every time it boots, it takes around ten+...

Interesting... I was just juggling with the idea of having XBMC and FreeBSD+ZFS on the same machine... two ideas came up: 1. (assuming it works) XBMC running on top of FreeBSD's Linux binary emulation layer. Everything else falls into place. 2. XBMC running on a Linux-based Xen dom0...

It looks fine the 2nd time 'round. Maybe I caught the mirror at the wrong time? :P Anyway, thanks.

That, I did. (freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2-RELEASE) Giving it another go now to see if it's just as scary.

I tried freebsd-update from 7.1-RELEASE-p4 to 7.2-RELEASE, and the above is scaring me. Is that NORMAL? I can't find anything related elsewhere.