Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 01:03:47 -0400 From: Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning with gpart or old style slices? Message-ID: <201106050103.47416.rsimmons0@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110605044021.GA2213@tinyCurrent> References: <4DEAAE54.1050508@locolomo.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106042039240.34792@wonkity.com> <20110605044021.GA2213@tinyCurrent>
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On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote: > Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the > following sequence: > > # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR > # gpart add -t freebsd ad4 # Create a BSD container > # gpart create -s bsd ad4s1 # Init with a BSD scheme > # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1G ad4s1 # 1GB for / > # gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 2G ad4s1 # 2GB for swap > # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 2G ad4s1 # 2GB for /var > # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1G ad4s1 # 1GB for /tmp > # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs ad4s1 # all rest for /usr > # gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4 > > But the result is not ready for boot after install the kernel and > system; I allways have to go again with the sysinstall(8) tool to set > the 'A' flag; don't know what I'm missing (and the man page is not very > instructive on this); thanks You need to install the bootcode: This will install the interactive one: gpart bootcode -b /mnt2/boot/boot0 ad4 this will install the non-interactive one: gpart bootcode -b /mnt2/boot/mbr ad4
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