Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:59:23 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drive ? Message-ID: <26243.1353020363@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211151456450.66706@wonkity.com>
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Warren, In the EXAMPLES section of the gpart(8) man page, they do this: /sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ad0 In your document however, you first create an explicit (special) partition named "gpboot" and then you do this instead: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0 Who is "right" in this case? I did the former, and did not get any error. The gpart(8) man page says: "... First, a protective MBR is embedded into the first disk sector from the /boot/pmbr image..." however it appears to me that the steps in your tutorial are effectively installing a copy of the /boot/pmbr file into block #40 of the disk. Yes? But isn't a copy of /boot/pmbr really supposed to end up in the first 512 bytes of the disk, i.e. block #0 ?
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