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Subject: Re: "nextboot" for MBR slice?
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Hello, Paul.
You wrote 30 =D0=B8=D1=8E=D0=BB=D1=8F 2012 =D0=B3., 20:17:27:

PS> Did you try to use boot0sio?  I run dozens of NanoBSD systems, most are
  It strangely hangs up to 10 minutes on my net5501...

PS> change the active partition.  Now (FB >=3D 8) one should use 'gpart set
PS> -a active -i <slice>'.  The default slice reported during boot can be
  Yep, it is exactly what I do...

  I'm  wonder, is it possible to switch to GPT "on the fly"... old gpt
command has "migrate" operation, but current "gpart" doesn't have one.


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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>