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From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Paul Thornton <prt@prt.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Changes between 9.1 and 9.2 affecting boot/loader/gpt discs
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On 20.03.2014 21:00, Paul Thornton wrote:
> All pointers and suggestions will be very gratefully accepted, this has
> been tying me in knots for the past few weeks.

Hello,

Can you show the output of:
	# dd if=/dev/ada0 count=1 | hexdump -vC

Also can you describe how exactly you configure the boot process?
I.e. what you have in loader.conf, boot.config, how you install boot code?

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov