Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:21:58 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart Message-ID: <20130401132158.241b8199@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <5158EBA0.9010000@gmail.com> References: <004301ce2e78$3e274fc0$ba75ef40$@thenetnow.com> <20130401085447.5f7bef64@X220.ovitrap.com> <5158EBA0.9010000@gmail.com>
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Hi, On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:06:24 -0500 Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/31/2013 8:54 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > I have had only one problem with this description. I could not boot > > from a GPT setup on my machine done as described there. But I have a > > disk done with PCBSD based on 9.0 which booted well. I cannot tell > > you if this is a problem caused by a later chance on the side of > > FreeBSD. > > Did you make sure to install the gpt bootloader instead of the > standard bootloader? I believe I have the gptzfsboot, so I have no > UFS partitions and everything's partitioned with GPT. There's no > guarantee it will fix it, bios quirks happens. it is a real weird thing. As I installed a PCBSD on that disk originally, I have had a running system. It stopped working after some FreeBSD update. As this is an external disk, I do not boot often from it. I use it mainly for backup purpose. I stopped working on this problem for some time but I will have to go back soon after other work is finished. Erich
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