From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 13:27:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF39106567D for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:27:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivier@gid0.org) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0948FC1C for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by laai10 with SMTP id i10so1522238laa.13 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 06:27:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=8TmRHLvNv7r2oZoXeuE/lEEccT+mUnP1dKAMPfv+vR8=; b=VLxuGhO+twWuIkv3kC54qJ/H3mf4Spva/6cPOnVLojG8jIZ2RkFMm6bZ0tdxEV2kSW t3wQEVK7tWJwWhwwW2YHgfPVRZeVyPjqVzlooJraipTVJ8NB9qY0nOHkm2Gj0J3emlYC oRPvZJ7zlXPar1Piu6KAqbyo4NbAgGSBCdRszge/AVydcg1bRfJWoJ5DbUYW1tDaDzw0 iQHRHZ6l+/ahxWqUTQ2ubQLFtT8ZhvQj2AjJ92YMuK9qUYp7AXh7144vF2xmd892u2mt 8+RG0lS+fp9P1YEha4HU7N6J+kv2SOcHcX424W8vz7nmy/HpmGNZcp2C3iceDkivnqba EnFw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.131.9 with SMTP id oi9mr3481734lab.39.1339162062323; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 06:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.130.6 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 06:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:27:42 +0200 Message-ID: From: Olivier Smedts To: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn/VkmrIU/jwGr2FnYu64NsN3xkN+DgjTgq55aZ6XLGLdaSaUfRcCPXXXi8b9tXIUM34hgN Subject: How can I boot the second hard drive without proper BIOS or boot manager ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:27:44 -0000 Hello list, I was a happy user of boot0cfg and the boot0 boot manager until I converted my MBR+UFS disks to GPT+ZFS. Now I use gptzfsboot but sometimes I'd like to boot the second hard drive, and my crappy BIOS won't allow me to do that, it only allows to boot from the first hard drive (sic...). I'd like to avoid installing a full boot manager like grub2 (and I don't know if the FreeBSD port supports ZFS). Is there anything I can do at the "boot:" prompt to "chainload" the 2nd hard drive boot block ? Or can I use the boot0 boot manager and boot0cfg to boot the "freebsd-boot" GPT partition if it's mirrored in the protective MBR, like I used to do on = my old MBR layout ? Thanks --=20 Olivier Smedts=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0 _ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= =A0 ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: olivier@gid0.org=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 - against HTML email & vCards=A0 X www: http://www.gid0.org=A0 =A0 - against proprietary attachments / \ =A0 "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : =A0 ceux qui comprennent le binaire, =A0 et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas."