From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 21 16:09:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834981065670; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:09:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC568FC0C; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:09:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D69D7E818; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:09:36 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:09:30 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/8.0-STABLE; KDE/4.3.1; i386; ; ) References: <200912210600.46044.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <200912210614.12483.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <1261409279.2315.75.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <1261409279.2315.75.camel@balrog.2hip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912210709.30729.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Ollivier Robert , Robert Noland Subject: Re: Some notes on RootOnZFS article in wiki X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:09:37 -0000 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