On 29. Jun 2024, at 03:26, Rick Macklem <rick.mack...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've installed FreeBSD current in a bhvye instance. Everything > went ok, with UFS as a root partition. > Then I created a zpool in another partition... > - Now, every time I boot it I have to > OK set currdev=disk0s1a: > to get it to boot. > > What is the trick to keep ZFS from messing up the boot variables?
I remember having this problem a few years ago. I see I have in an old startup file, ‘-e “rootdev=disk0”’ to set a loader environment variable. I also recall needing different Bhyve firmware, and I used gptboot. Some of these things might have been for different reasons. Other details are fuzzy. Regards, Jan M.
