I tried installing on a 2012 macbook and after following the guided
install and auto partition it gives me a looping “Failed to find a
bootable partition” after the reboot
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CleetusTheDragon · 2022-06-20 01:37

Can someone help me figure out what I did wrong? I chose the GPT
option after reading that this is a EFI machine.

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grahamperrin · 2022-06-20 05:20

If the Mac booted an installer, then it should be able to boot the
result of an installation.

Maybe boot again from the installer and instead of installing, enter a
shell then use [efibootmgr\(8\)](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q
uery=efibootmgr&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD).

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CleetusTheDragon · 2022-06-20 12:12

So as it turns out the Mac firmware can boot from the GPT (BIOS+UEFI)
option in the ZFS auto installer but not the GPT option in the UFS one

I just kind of gravitated toward UFS because of the message about ZFS
not being recommended for machines with under 4GB of ram and I guess
now I should check the ZFS tuning page in the handbook when I get home

Thanks for the help

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grahamperrin · 2022-06-21 02:06

Thanks! That's interesting.

I'll mark your post *answered*.

> … the message about ZFS not being recommended for machines with
under 4GB of ram

I think you were misinformed.

> and I guess now I should check the ZFS tuning page in the handbook
when I get home

Instead, allow the defaults.

Begin to tune only if you're certain that the defaults present a
problem.

FreeBSD bug [261212 – Update the ZFS chapter (20) of the FreeBSD
Handbook, and other OpenZFS-related
pages](https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261212) –
what's there is not comprehensive, there may be other issues with this
chapter.