From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 14:22:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11249907 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:22:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm4-vm0.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm4-vm0.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E5B8FC14 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:22:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.57] by nm4.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 14:22:21 -0000 Received: from [217.146.188.170] by tm10.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 14:22:21 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp138.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 14:22:21 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1353853341; bh=DoM5p5X8vdZ2OATbyZJysRg8vEajMjlD1BYLPuga76I=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=thqYV7OmmRoBbbjOON8+5ANrbcL1HAfWApsXCQiQOPX+T0XnD1nVofAhPO9ckBd+dSpYEjmRY+9qCTD03ANZnGAOYZ66bTNwsxvaz43K5o2xENmr18rDk5SxI6YV3lKzjTQN8rbAN7xeh2NOZZ/jXp2u32M39xiamI8lqVlqyCI= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 71219.86436.bm@smtp138.mail.ird.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: HGMwezgVM1l8Ebe5LLQm2oYO9i9ylDPDm6SmF36V2thv9r6 86yJBBeASr8qBVxhDmPIbXjp26Z.rNd9aECsbfxiuEZGtBuF3VqfuPRp_8YL f9LrK5kxBHO0zvQssUhQu1BMOSUZTO8ZmuU8.bhPuPh9JFok13.033eaQM5G uq_GBk_3CFyTY2ugDMl.G.2FVMUk6NIInJ1U7kXI1JdPCn9iyeniM8bCT1dp MbHhu9U75BiIihbvpyXosA3Cetg4Fqg6H7Ahc_4sHmdPofNlpkQd8vMEpM5. xYSE_F3tD4MHL5p79pG6EnKpQz7vmWY7QFRCXZpDZOCPyqDpyGYV43xYDItD TsbFQM74UXdqwtUbdaXeI5nQMLBCCVyfVRtqehuZ4J6GHypKwCeoZcWDY7ab 7vAGFHmZwokSUWynCwKtmrI4.5IVBPbh_ZV_RlR0- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [85.182.22.141] (ralf.mardorf@85.182.22.141 with login) by smtp138.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2012 06:22:21 -0800 PST Message-ID: <1353853341.2508.69.camel@q> Subject: Re: Wheres the FreeBSD PBR ? (was Re: Manually partitioning using gpart / wh) From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:22:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: <50B226F3.2000207@bnrlabs.com> References: <1353842774.2508.18.camel@q> <50B20FD9.9070405@bnrlabs.com> <1353848249.2508.41.camel@q> <50B2197C.2040003@bnrlabs.com> <1353850537.2508.66.camel@q> <50B226F3.2000207@bnrlabs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:22:29 -0000 On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 15:10 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: > On 2012.11.25 14:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I don't need it, but I could add it for what ever worst case emergency > > scenario and GRUB in the MBR anyway will work? > I don't see how it could ever come in handy, and I'm not sure it > wouldn't do any hamr either. The /boot/gptboot code to be written weighs > 15kB, that could be big enough to mess up the filesystem on the > partition. That /boot/gptboot code is designed to work on a > special-purpose small GPT partition that doesn't hold a filesystem. So I > would refrain from doing it. > > It would be useful for emergency purposes to write MBR-partition > scheme-compatible bootcode to that partition instead, but I've yet to > find out how to do it. gpart(8) seems to have the ability to do it, but > it's manual page doesn't mention what file to pass to its -p option to > do that. Maybe it's one of those /boot/boot1 or /boot/boot2 files I'm > seeing on my system. Maybe someone can enlighten me on that. Ok. I don't install it. Regards, Ralf -- At the moment I'm watching "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", so I'll continue the install later today.