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Depending on disk partitioning and boot file system, the .Nm is installed in a .Cm zfs pool boot area or .Cm boot partition of a disk with .Xr installboot 8 . .Ss IMPLEMENTATION NOTES The GPT standard allows a variable number of partitions, but .Nm only boots from tables with 128 partitions or less. .Ss BOOTING .Nm tries to find all ZFS pools that are composed of BIOS-visible hard disks or partitions on them. .Nm looks for ZFS device labels on all visible disks and in discovered supported partitions for all supported partition scheme types. Disks are probed in BIOS defined order. After a disk is probed and .Nm determines that the whole disk is not a ZFS pool member, the individual partitions are probed in their partition table order. Currently GPT and MBR partition schemes are supported. .Pp The default boot partition is recorded into .Nm binary by .Xr installboot 8 and the default boot file system is determined at run time. .Nm does support booting from the .Cm ZFS , .Cm UFS and .Cm PCFS file systems. .Pp The filesystem specified by the .Cm bootfs property of the ZFS pool is used as a default boot filesystem. If the .Cm bootfs property is not set, then the root filesystem of the pool is used as the default. .Xr loader 7 is loaded from the boot filesystem. If .Pa /boot/config is present in the boot filesystem, boot options are read from it. .Pp The ZFS GUIDs of the boot pool and boot file system are made available to .Xr loader 7 . .Ss USAGE Normally .Nm will boot in fully automatic mode. However, it is possible to interrupt the automatic boot process and interact with .Nm through a prompt. .Pp The filesystem specification and the path to .Xr loader 7 is specified as .Pp .Sm off .Oo zfs:pool/filesystem: Oc Oo /path/to/loader Oc .Sm on .Pp Both the filesystem and the path can be specified. If only a path is specified, then the default filesystem is used. If only a pool and filesystem are specified, then .Pa /boot/loader is used as a path. .Pp Additionally, the .Nm does support two commands to get information about the system. .Ic ?directoryname can be used to list the content of named directory and .Ic status command can be used to query information about discovered devices. The output format for ZFS pools is similar to that of .Cm zpool status .Pq see Xr zpool 8 . .Pp The configured or automatically determined ZFS boot filesystem is stored in the .Xr loader 7 .Cm loaddev variable, and also set as the initial value of the .Cm currdev variable. .Sh OPTIONS The following options are supported by .Nm and .Xr loader 7 : .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl D Dual console. Use both text and serial console with .Nm and .Xr loader 7 . .It Fl P Probe for keyboard. If there is no keyboard, switch on the dual console and serial console. .It Fl S Ns Ar speed Set serial port speed. .It Fl h Set serial console. .It Fl q Keep the .Nm console quiet. .It Fl t Keep the VGA text mode for .Xr loader 7 . .El .Pp The following options will be passed to the kernel: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl s Single user .It Fl v Verbose boot .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /boot/gptzfsboot -compact .It Pa /boot/config parameters for the boot block .Pq optional .It Pa /boot/gptzfsboot boot code binary .El .Sh EXAMPLES .Nm is installed in combination with a .Dq protective MBR .Po see .Xr installboot 8 .Pc . To install .Nm on the .Pa c0t0d0s0 drive: .Bd -literal -offset indent installboot /boot/pmbr /boot/gptzfsboot /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr loader 7 , .Xr installboot 8 , .Xr zpool 8