Re: Linux ZFS Grub compatibility

[John Lane]

On 09/06/18 17:15, Xen wrote:

> 
> Grub on this system is Ubuntu default currently, so that means
> 
> 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu11.3
> 
> I don't know if there are any Ubuntu specific patches in there, I'd have
> to check but.....

Thanks for that. It prompted me to spin up a Ubuntu 16.10 VM and, guess
what? it works!

I used the exact same script to create my zpool and then tested in Grub,
where the following worked flawlessly:

grub> search --set --label testpool
grub> ls /ROOT/ubuntu@/boot

The expected files were listed, no errors or warnings. I did, however,
have to "insmod part_gpt" but I did not need to "insmod zfs".

So it must be some issue with the Grub version on Arch. I would have
expected that to be closer to vanilla than Ubuntu's but then maybe
that's the problem. Like you said, I don't know if Ubuntu's grub
contains any special ubuntu-specific patches.

Perhaps I should ask this over on the Arch ML ?