I'm trying to get a system up and running with a couple new WD EARS drives on 8.2-STABLE (built July 20, so it has ZFS v28 support). I'd like to be able to boot from ZFS using the gnop trick to make my partitions are 4k-aligned. Booting from ZFS without doing the 4k alignment works beautifully, but when I use the gnop trick, ZFS booting doesn't work at all. I have a script to build my pool with and without the gnop trick. Without the trick, I create the pool like this:
With the gnop trick, the pool is created like this:
Other than this, the pools are set up identically by the script.
Without the gnop trick I'm golden. With the gnop trick, on boot I get the spinner and then the computer reboots (it looks like boot0 fails).
Any ideas what might be going on?
Code:
zpool create $TANK gpt/$DISK0 gpt/$DISK1
With the gnop trick, the pool is created like this:
Code:
gnop create -S 4096 gpt/${DISK0}
gnop create -S 4096 gpt/${DISK1}
zpool create $TANK gpt/${DISK0}.nop gpt/${DISK1}.nop
zpool export $TANK
gnop destroy gpt/${DISK0}.nop
gnop destroy gpt/${DISK1}.nop
zpool import $TANK
Other than this, the pools are set up identically by the script.
Without the gnop trick I'm golden. With the gnop trick, on boot I get the spinner and then the computer reboots (it looks like boot0 fails).
Any ideas what might be going on?