Re: [PATCH] grub + FreeBSD's loader(8) + ZFS root

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Navdeep Parhar wrote:
> Hello grub-devel,
>
> Right now it's not possible to boot using FreeBSD's loader(8) from a ZFS
> root filesystem.  Grub doesn't indicate to the loader that there is a
> ZFS root involved and consequently the loader fails to find the kernel.
> The attached patch fixes this.  It does not affect those that boot the
> kernel directly.  This is only for users that want to boot using
> FreeBSD's loader.
>
> Why would you want to?  IMHO it is much simpler to boot indirectly using
> the loader because in that case grub does not have to deal with
> device.hints, kernel modules, kFreeBSD.xxx style variables,
> /boot/zfs/zpool.cache, etc.  As a FreeBSD user, I'm used to putting this
> information in the "normal" config files (/boot/loader.conf, device.hints,
> etc.) and not in a grub.cfg file. Grub only needs to know where the loader
> is, nothing else:
>
> menuentry "FreeBSD 8" {
>        search -s -l fbsd8
>        kfreebsd -D /@/boot/zfsloader
> }
> (fbsd8 is the name of the ZFS root pool)
>
>   
Eternal chainloading isn't the way to go. It limits grub usefullness and
scope and is to be used only when no alternative exists. In this case
the right direction would be to make a small C module to parse boot(8)
config or a shell script for 30_osprober.in to do the same job
> Let me know if you have any questions.  Once again, if you load the
> kernel directly and want to load modules and set kFreeBSD.foo.bar=...
> yourself, all that will continue to work.
>
> Regards,
> Navdeep
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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