Install Elementary Loki on ZFS root

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# Experimental 2016-01-10

DOES NOT WORK YET.

    sudo -i
    apt-get update
    apt-get install --yes debootstrap zfsutils-linux zfs-initramfs zfs-dkms  
    modprobe zfs

# setup zfs 
    sudo zpool create -d \
    -o feature@async_destroy=enabled \
    -o feature@empty_bpobj=enabled \
    -o feature@lz4_compress=enabled \
    -o ashift=12 \
    -O compression=lz4 \
    rpool  \
    /dev/disk/by-id/ata-DISK

    zfs create rpool/ROOT
    zfs create rpool/ROOT/elementary-1
    
    zfs set mountpoint=/ rpool/ROOT/elementary-1
    zpool set bootfs=rpool/ROOT/elementary-1 rpool
    zpool export rpool
    zpool import -R /mnt rpool
    debootstrap --arch amd64 xenial /mnt
    cp /etc/hosts /mnt/etc/
    nano /mnt/etc/hostname 
    mount --rbind /dev      /mnt/dev
    mount --rbind /proc     /mnt/proc
    mount --rbind /sys      /mnt/sys
    chroot /mnt /bin/bash --login
    locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
    dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
    
    apt-get update
    apt-get install --yes ubuntu-minimal software-properties-common wget bsd-mailx patch
    apt-get update
    apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends linux-generic linux-headers-generic
    wget -q -O /etc/cron.hourly/zfs-check https://gist.githubusercontent.com/fire/65f7aa33b91d3af2aef0/raw/a0309ef9a6bec26b497b2ee7e00aaa2889310384/zfs-check.sh
    wget -q -O /etc/cron.monthly/zfs-scrub https://gist.githubusercontent.com/fire/65f7aa33b91d3af2aef0/raw/5b0904343897b1410fd57239879a0f43ff634883/zfs-scrub.sh
    chmod 755 /etc/cron.hourly/zfs-check /etc/cron.monthly/zfs-scrub
    
    # See existing /etc/sudoers.d/zfs
    #wget -q -O /etc/sudoers.d/zfs https://gist.githubusercontent.com/fire/65f7aa33b91d3af2aef0/raw/36a2b9e37819abffc6bfc2a9a36859afabf47754/zfs.sudoers
    #chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/zfs

    # Change name of admin user
    USERNAME="johnd"
    adduser $USERNAME
    cp -a /etc/skel/.[!.]* /home/$USERNAME
    
    chown $USERNAME:$USERNAME /home/$USERNAME
    
    usermod -a -G adm,audio,dialout,dip,cdrom,floppy,fuse,lpadmin,plugdev,sambashare,scanner,sudo,video $YOURUSERNAME
    apt-get install -y grub-efi nano
    # Add to /etc/apt/sources.list
    # deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial universe
    apt-get install -y zfsutils-linux zfs-initramfs spl-dkms zfs-dkms

    sudo nano  /etc/default/grub
    # add "boot=zfs" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=
    
    # Install zfs script to recreate /dev/ nodes so that grub can use it.
    cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-zfs-grub-fix.rules << 'EOF'
    ENV{DEVTYPE}=="partition", IMPORT{parent}="ID_*", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="zfs_member", SYMLINK+="$env{ID_BUS}-$env{ID_SERIAL}     $env{ID_BUS}-$env{ID_SERIAL}-part%n"
    EOF
    udevadm trigger
    
    update-initramfs -c -k all
    # update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-40-generic
    # 6.3 Update the boot configuration file:
    
    update-grub
    # Generating grub.cfg ...
    # Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-40-generic
    # Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-40-generic
    # done
    
    # 6.4 Install the boot loader
    
    grub-install $(readlink -f /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_disk1)
    # Installation finished. No error reported.
    
    add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily
    add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/os-patches
    apt-get update
    apt-get -y install elementary-desktop
    apt-get -y install upgrade

    exit
    # 7.2 Run these commands in the LiveCD environment to dismount all filesystems:
    
    umount -l /mnt/dev
    umount -l /mnt/proc
    umount -l /mnt/sys
    zfs umount -a
    zpool export rpool
    reboot
    
## How to boot a grub efi from scratch

linux /ROOT/elementary-1/@/boot/vmlinuz-4.3.0-5-lowlatency # Sample
initrd /ROOT/elementary-1/@/boot/initrd.img-4.3.0-5-lowlatency
boot

Did you ever get this working?

I am considering testing this out on an existing boot-from-ZFS machine (gentoo) as the degree of tedium required in setting up a decent graphical environment on Gentoo exceeds my available time.