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Subject: Re: The saga continues
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From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 15:02:33 -0453.75
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On 10/06/15 14:33, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 08:25:06 -0453.75, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> >When I went to reboot, the UEFI 'BIOS' reported
>> >'missing MBR record' & hung there.
> Do you have "MBR legacy boot" enabled or forced? When using GPT
> volumes, one of them has to be a "boot partition". Here you can
> find a good illustration of the steps involved:
>
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_new_standard_gpt
>
> By the way, it's more like either "BIOS"_or_  "UEFI".;-)


I have seen that page, & its sibling showing how to setup a RAID1 on 2 
disks, *very* helpful, & I think updated recently, they used to have the 
MBR stuff at the top of the page & GPT farther down. I am following 
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/gmirror.html pretty closely in 
my setup, with a bit of 
http://www.ateamsystems.com/tech-blog/installing-freebsd-9-gmirror-gpt-partitions-raid-1/ 
mixed in (-a 1m, mostly). I am still having issues (I am using both 
gmirrors & gstripes, might be an issue), but am plugging away on it, may 
have a few more questions in a bit :-/ ....


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