Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:41:39 -0700 From: Andy Moran <amoran@yahoo.com> To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup Message-ID: <98F04B43-AEE1-4C55-B459-FEBAD8384A0A@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <523BBE1F.5070909@FreeBSD.org> References: <1379572619.72405.YahooMailNeo@web121302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <523AACF8.8080404@gmail.com> <1379598213.765.YahooMailNeo@web121304.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <523B02F6.4070708@gmail.com> <297B5E1D-40E0-4745-80D3-26EF38A931EC@yahoo.com> <20130919162817.GH14220@funkthat.com> <3485DA0E-615F-46DA-8683-C74DF241F512@yahoo.com> <523BBE1F.5070909@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sep 19, 2013, at 8:16 PM, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 20.09.2013 06:34, Andy Moran wrote: >> WIth the 10-ALPHA2 LiveCD, I get: >>=20 >> gpart: attrib 'active': Device not configured >>=20 >=20 > GPT partitions don't have active attribute. You should omit -i = argument. > Just run `gpart unset -a active ada0`. >=20 > --=20 > WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov >=20 > --=20 > WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov That ran without errors.. but sadly did not solve my problem of the UEFI = not recognizing it as a bootable disk. I think the problem is my = particular UEFI doesn't recognize GPT drives that don't have an EFI = partition on them.=20 So I gave up. My server has been down for too long. I took half the = zfs mirror, created it with a MBR partition and installed FreeBSD 9.2 on = it, and my UEFI can boot it in legacy mode. =46rom there I can mount = the other half of the mirror and copy files off. A painful process but = at least I have a way forward. =20 Thanks for the suggestions. =20 --Andy=
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