Manual install with ZFS root

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Rough notes on a manual installation, with ZFS for / and ext2 for /boot/grub

Also see the corresponding Ubuntu documentation

Not meant to be copy&pasted, please think for yourself.

  • You need to install from a medium with zfs installed: xbps-install zfs
  • Create a small ext2 partition (assumed sda1) for /boot/grub and an as big/many as you want for zfs (assumed sda2)
  • Create the pool: zpool create rpool /dev/sda2
  • Create a fs for the root file systems: zfs create rpool/ROOT
  • Create a fs for the Void file system: zfs create rpool/ROOT/voidlinux_1
  • DO NOT USE - IN FILESYSTEM NAMES, due to this "feature".
  • Unmount all ZFS filesystems: zfs umount -a
  • zfs set mountpoint=/ rpool/ROOT/voidlinux_1
  • zpool set bootfs=rpool/ROOT/voidlinux_1 rpool
  • Export the pool: zpool export rpool
  • Import the pool below /mnt: zpool import -R /mnt rpool
  • Due to the mountpoint=/, the pool should now be mounted at /mnt directly. Verify with mount: rpool/ROOT/voidlinux_1 on /mnt type zfs (rw,relatime,xattr,noacl)
  • Install Void
  • mkdir -p /mnt/{boot/grub,dev,proc,run,sys}
  • mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/grub
  • mount --rbind /dev /mnt/dev
  • mount --rbind /proc /mnt/proc
  • mount --rbind /run /mnt/run
  • mount --rbind /sys /mnt/sys
  • xbps-install -S -R http://repo.voidlinux.eu/current -r /mnt base-system grub
  • chroot /mnt /bin/bash
  • passwd root
  • chown root:root /
  • chmod 755 /
  • vi /etc/rc.conf
  • echo void-zfs >/etc/hostname
  • xbps-install zfs
  • Check if grub-probe / outputs zfs, else hack /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig and insert values of GRUB_DEVICE=/dev/sda2 and GRUB_DEVICE_BOOT=/dev/sda2 directly.
  • grub-install /dev/sda
  • uncomment hostonly=yes (important!): vi /etc/dracut.conf
  • if /etc/zfs/zpool.cache does not exist, run: zpool set cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.cache rpool
  • force update of dracut and grub: xbps-reconfigure -f linux3.14
  • Sanity check: lsinitrd should show zfs.ko and zpool.cache, grub config should have line like "linux /ROOT/voidlinux_1@/boot/vmlinuz... root=ZFS=rpool/ROOT/voidlinux_1
  • If you ever fail to import the pool at boot, reboot with zfs.force=y (but having an uptodate zpool.cache in the initrd should avoid that).
  • Good luck!
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