On 1/6/2014 3:26 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > Grub only needs to know about the filesystems that it uses to boot the > system. Mounting of the other file systems including /var is the > responsibility of the system that has been booted. I suspect that you have > something else wrong if you can't boot with/var/ on ZFS. > > I may be wrong, but I don't think so. If grub needed to know about the file > systems other than the one it is using to boot, then it would have > parameters to describe the other file systems. more likely, syslog is trying to start prior to the zfs loadable kernel stuff being setup. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast