I don't know what I am doing

edwardm · 02-20-2015, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

@edwardm:

Do you think editing the grub.d file with a Solaris entry will help?

--:-This link might help- Jeebizz-:--
http://gotoanswer.stanford.edu/?q=Ho...x%2Csolaris%3F

I have read some articles, but never really did any tests to comfirmed them.
that neither Grub or lilo that comes with linux distros are able to boot
ZFS filesystems.

Ztcoracat · 02-20-2015, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by edwardm

I have read some articles, but never really did any tests to comfirmed them.
that neither Grub or lilo that comes with linux distros are able to boot
ZFS filesystems.

Ok, I understand now. FreeBSD, Solaris are ZFS fs-

After reading the Wikipedia WiKi I see that the distribution that your running, DragonFlyBSD, is a ZFS fs as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Limitations

How did you manage to get your Dragon Fly distro to boot?

-:- -:- -:- -:-
This looks like this might work. At this point you know more than I do.

Code:

Title name_of_linux_distro Grub
    rootnoverify (hd0,1)     
    makeactive
    chainloader +1

Ztcoracat · 02-20-2015, 07:35 PM

This Oracle WiKi looks like a start, Jeebizz-
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/...bbb/index.html

Hope it helps.

I've been at war myself with LILO and Grub for the last few days.
So far what I found out that a chainload menu entry in lilo.conf might work. (might)
If it does I'll let you know but it may not work for you because of the ZFS fs.

Has any of the Solaris documentation made any mention of how to work with the bootloader?

edwardm · 02-24-2015, 09:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

Ok, I understand now. FreeBSD, Solaris are ZFS fs-

After reading the Wikipedia WiKi I see that the distribution that your running, DragonFlyBSD, is a ZFS fs as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Limitations

How did you manage to get your Dragon Fly distro to boot?

DragonFly uses HAMMER filesystem not ZFS.
.
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/

Probably a ZFS port for Dragonfly may be in the works,
Installed Dragonfly on its own dedicated system
and use Dragonfly's own bootloader.

Ztcoracat · 02-24-2015, 11:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by edwardm

DragonFly uses HAMMER filesystem not ZFS.
.
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/

Probably a ZFS port for Dragonfly may be in the works,
Installed Dragonfly on its own dedicated system
and use Dragonfly's own bootloader.

Got it:-