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Date:      Fri, 27 Dec 2013 16:42:12 +0100
From:      Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Thomas Hoffmann <trh411@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 Now Available
Message-ID:  <38B0C411B75D7482B92033D2@ogg.in.absolight.net>
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+--On 27 d=C3=A9cembre 2013 10:28:07 -0500 Thomas Hoffmann =
<trh411@gmail.com>
wrote:
| All the examples I've seen for updating bootcode assume GPT. If one has
| MBR (as I do) and assuming the following basic scheme:
|=20
| gpart show ada0
| =3D>       63  976773105  ada0  MBR  (466G)
|          63  976773105     1  freebsd  [active]  (466G)
|=20
| gpart show ada0s1
| =3D>        0  976773105  ada0s1  BSD  (466G)
|           0  943218736       1  freebsd-zfs  (450G)
|   943218736   33554369       2  freebsd-swap  (16G)
|=20
| would the equivalent bootcode statement be:
|=20
| gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/zfsboot ada0s1
|=20
| where the boot code is /boot/zfsboot (rather than /boot/gptzfsboot) and
| ada0s1 is the slice on which FreeBSD is installed?

Hum, no, if you're using MBR and not GPT, you can't use gpart, you have to
do something aweful like this :
# dd if=3D/boot/zfsboot of=3D/dev/ada0 count=3D1
# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=3D0x10
# dd if=3D/boot/zfsboot of=3D/dev/ada0 skip=3D1 seek=3D1024

might be ada0s1 and not ada0, or something (please, don't do that unless
you're sure you're doing it right.)

--=20
Mathieu Arnold



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