[geeks] operating systems to replace Solaris

[Mike Meredith]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:03:03 -0400, Shannon wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2011, at 16:03 , Mike Meredith wrote:
> 
> > That's one of the main reasons why I went with FreeBSD.
> 
> Today I tested a ZFS install of FreeBSD 8.2 on VMWare.
> 
> I have one issue: when the system boots, the root filesystem is
> temporary readonly, which causes the boot to fail. It says it is
> trying to mount pool0/zroot as the root filesystem then says it
> cannot write to /etc/rc.conf and goes to the maintenance shell prompt.

That sounds very similar to the symptoms I had shortly after
installation when I blew away the first line of rc.conf (finger trouble
inside vi is never pretty) :-

	zfs_enable="yes"

The only other thing I can think of is that something's wrong with the
boot loader configuration.



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