Gpart add -l SWAP -s 12G -t freebsd-swap ada0 Gpart add -l BOOT -s 512M -t freebsd-ufs ada0
Initialize the partition table in ada0: gpart create -s APM ada0Ĭreate an Apple_Bootstrap partition, a boot partition, a swap partition, and the ZFS pool: gpart add -l BOOTSTRAP -s 800K -t apple-boot ada0 This is based on a 650G hard disk with 6G of RAM: Index In other words: the procedure will wipe all data on ada0 you have been warned.įor reference, the disk layout used in the procedure below looks as in the following table. The following instructions assume that the disk onto which FreeBSD will be installed is ada0 and that the whole disk is devoted to FreeBSD. (Tip: you might want to reserve the first few GB of your drive for a plain FreeBSD installation to use for recovery-purposes only, and you can later use this simplified system to bootstrap the real one as described below.) I suppose everything described here can be done in the same manner from the live shell provided by the installer, although the paths and the ordering of the instructions might be slightly different. Note that I performed this procedure from a FreeBSD installation residing on the second drive of the machine.
Setup openzfs on freebsd how to#
I am pretty sure the instructions here apply to other PowerPC-based machines as well, although the specific details on how to set up the boot loader most likely differ. If all of the above apply to you, you have come to the right place! Read on for how I got FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT with a ZFS root to work on a PowerMac G5.
Suppose that you would like to use ZFS as much as possible, say to use the machine as a NAS. Suppose that you want FreeBSD to run on it. Suppose you have a nice PowerMac G5 big beast around and want to install a modern operating system on it.
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