From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: ChrisO <armbian@osk.ch>
Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: u-boot & ZFS
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 20:35:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210818003514.GO858@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210817160310.GA19707@server>
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 06:03:10PM +0200, ChrisO wrote:
> Hi
>
> I searched for u-boot ZFS references and all I found was several years old, but I suppose u-boot can cope with ZFS.
> So, my question is: is it possible to boot Linux from ZFS or at least boot from let's say SD-card with ext4 FS and mount a ZFS volume as root filesystem?
> I had a look at Armbian, installed all needed, user-space and kernel modules. After booting from SD card I can use ZFS on attached SATA SSD w/o any problem.
> I also see ZFS libs and kernel modules in initrd, so it looks like the necessary things are there.
> Don't know where to start.
> I would be very thankful for any help.
The general easy answer is to have /boot that is separate from the
rootfs and using a filesystem more commonly supported.
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Tom
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-18 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-17 16:03 u-boot & ZFS ChrisO
2021-08-18 0:35 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2021-08-18 9:41 ` ChrisO
2021-08-18 10:26 ` Lukasz Majewski
2021-08-18 13:25 ` ChrisO
2021-08-18 13:53 ` Tom Rini
2021-08-18 17:23 ` ChrisO
2021-08-18 14:07 ` Mark Kettenis
2021-08-18 14:12 ` Dimitri John Ledkov
2021-08-18 16:28 ` ChrisO
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