Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:24:51 -0200 From: Raimundo Santos <raitech@gmail.com> To: Volker Nebel <vnebel@web.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD on a Macintosh? Message-ID: <CAGQ6iC-aKt83cBUR-Tv_zOE6_6Pz5NH8AHJ_P2uvgRRZ3CjfyQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401152021130.1411@localhost> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401141804450.1273@localhost> <52D6D32A.9010506@rancid.berkeley.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401152021130.1411@localhost>
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On 15 January 2014 17:26, Volker Nebel <vnebel@web.de> wrote:
> Is type freebsd-boot wrong?
Hello Volker,
in MBR you do not need a boot partition. With the way MBR works you just
need to set an active boot partition and write the right boot code where
you need it.
mdoc.su/f/gpart manpage have good example of doing this:
Create an MBR scheme on *ada0*, then create a 30GB-sized FreeBSD slice,
mark it active and install the *boot0* boot manager:
/sbin/gpart create -s MBR ada0
/sbin/gpart add -t freebsd -s 30G ada0
/sbin/gpart set -a active -i 1 ada0
/sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ada0
Now create a BSD scheme (BSD label) with space for up to 20 partitions:
/sbin/gpart create -s BSD -n 20 ada0s1
Create a 1GB-sized UFS partition and a 4GB-sized swap partition:
/sbin/gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1G ada0s1
/sbin/gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 4G ada0s1
Install bootstrap code for the BSD label:
/sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot ada0s1
Never try MBR creation within installer paprtition manager, maybe it create
all these for you.
Best regards,
Raimundo Santos
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