Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 13:45:25 +0000 From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is it possible to install FreeBSD on a single MBR slice with ZFS ? Message-ID: <VI1PR02MB120024156110981D6A3B4C80F6060@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <e2f76fb0-05e0-5a53-1730-a5a64291c407@holgerdanske.com> References: <VI1PR02MB12004B1D8A87B3E247FC1A66F6040@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>, <e2f76fb0-05e0-5a53-1730-a5a64291c407@holgerdanske.com>
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>>AFAIK, the FreeBSD 11.0 installer wants the whole disk << Hi David, That appears to be my impression too : it simply is not possible to install= FreeBSD on an MBR disk (unless one is willing to use the entire disk). That is a fairly serious inconvenience : I hate the idea of having to use G= PT on my disk because I cannot use the Boot Easy manager (boot0cfg) under G= PT. Plus GPT inevitably leads to reckless partitioning. For disks under and upto 2 TB, MBR is supremely better. I did manage to get ZFS though, courtesy a spare slice available on my disk= . I installed FreeBSD using UFS on ada0s2 and migrated the setup to a ZFS tan= k under ada0s3 using the rsync strategy brilliantly detailed at : https://imil.net/blog/2016/04/28/Migrate-FreeBSD-root-on-UFS-to-ZFS/ But following the migration, I have made a serious error. I used Windows (a= da0s1) to delete ada0s2 : Windows has rearranged the MBR table to make ada0s3 -> ada0s2. I am now str= uggling to fix the MBR table. If you have any tips, that shall be wonderful Thanks for replying Manish Jain
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