Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:09:30 -0900 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Some notes on RootOnZFS article in wiki Message-ID: <200912210709.30729.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <1261409279.2315.75.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <200912210600.46044.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <200912210614.12483.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <1261409279.2315.75.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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On Monday 21 December 2009 06:27:59 Robert Noland wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 06:14 -0900, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Monday 21 December 2009 06:05:14 Ollivier Robert wrote: > > > According to Mel Flynn: > > > > 2) `gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4' gave me 'active: device not > > > > configured'. This error isn't mentioned (debugflags didn't help) in > > > > the wiki nor the missing DIAGNOSTICS section in the gpart man page. > > > > In my case the system booted, but it's nice to know what the error > > > > means and whether you can > > > > > > Most of the time, you don't even need it. On modern machines, system > > > will boot from the GPT "freebsd-boot" partition w/o having it active. > > > > And you would know whether you fall into the 'modern machines' category > > how? > > > > Also, did this error tell me I don't need it, did it tell me it didn't > > work even though it tried and now my partition info is screwed or is it > > completely harmless? That's what I'd like to know (either in the article, > > but probably better in gpart manpage). > > The reason that it fails is that "active" is not a parameter for GPT > based geom_part. It is only for geom_mbr. As I said, this is usually > no longer needed if you are using most newer branches, which if you are > doing zfs boot, you should be. Lots of zfs boot fixes have gone into > the code lately. Case in point, 8.0-RELEASE install media. So from what I'm reading this step should really be deleted from the how to, since it won't work for geom_part and isn't needed to begin with, unless you have a buggy BIOS. -- Mel
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