From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 19 15:12:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 176417BA for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:12:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amoran@yahoo.com) Received: from nm13-vm0.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm13-vm0.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.213.79]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E7C924CF for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:12:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.215.140] by nm13.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Sep 2013 15:12:36 -0000 Received: from [68.142.230.65] by tm11.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Sep 2013 15:12:36 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp222.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Sep 2013 15:12:36 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1379603556; bh=XRpVLfgGnNXod1KpvPmSMWkQYoNaPvjS52SRQqzKCMI=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:Content-Type:Mime-Version:Subject:From:In-Reply-To:Date:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id:References:To:X-Mailer; b=zRmmSWgJOenoxnKAQqXiasrY12blSpxQPzfTskY4lD4HhY8Kw9BSDwY/3M239tVKVRhzte73EjaXyuCYMWDIAunw0iQTsKSkJpGfYSNiP2h56d8Oeno61PmLpBuf9adRbprhxZAahAUNHk5g4NUiHw7AFv1FQi9KxurqJ3sXs3E= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 519674.95584.bm@smtp222.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: oaVi9MUVM1kGAaHxV6sJzXx6pbHKcoiAwKg9vFZfK2FGdz_ IP8Dfm81c5qaSuPhceSiOovm6GO703OLNqsD.EBj26ofRKaRS5CrzdC_QYhS HM54vsXP8TR_A_wRis1qAZsYYhtanCafh68YnPPHcAYLnyQ4FSvMNy0gPkW6 8IMH1pc4enAuJQPX2LmtC_i7BOSIwk83VT96.0MCGoPsMS2f1dA0hrgy8TC0 kKVkPyPgMrysPzu.CL3vV7ckRyy5TKRyAxRaufbM2Q_qNVyidJjbY_W95B6S KS6f3vE3OOidHfru4KS_eR3rBvDak.Yk1Nx0Lwb2._xj_x13QasHXx8fyPzm 5ooJB1v58EfL474tlS_XC2DXsB6aICx8om.fDx47YdNU0cn31eeHOfe.HeSw dUO_l.w5MbrCtvZBc3x5O_Og3H49zcOo_zEqPrZs2OodazWzI88rqY8dQ0cf 1ZVplS.3wlapnbvDLlGdodmutsKklTCtCMnc6.iEVwFK2AWhMPRPriw.SHzb 2FuvdisPf.ro21u8ZEHHJP8Q5J7bKWWENbnEzYAkM2TB7UWYVyMdFzFLZ_T2 RdYKOrQKxMk8bf0SW915Id_5PcJ_AzLY9QEaL64zi.siirXrS7kBpVAXH9w- - X-Yahoo-SMTP: VuaopNeswBCIHgj8aYlf29fZkA-- X-Rocket-Received: from [10.0.1.37] (amoran@173.13.138.197 with ) by smtp222.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Sep 2013 15:12:36 +0000 UTC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Subject: Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup From: Andy Moran In-Reply-To: <523B02F6.4070708@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:12:34 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <297B5E1D-40E0-4745-80D3-26EF38A931EC@yahoo.com> References: <1379572619.72405.YahooMailNeo@web121302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <523AACF8.8080404@gmail.com> <1379598213.765.YahooMailNeo@web121304.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <523B02F6.4070708@gmail.com> To: Volodymyr Kostyrko X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:12:44 -0000 On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko = wrote: > 19.09.2013 16:43, Andrew Moran wrote: >> Alas, that did not work. But it does look to be BIOS related. >>=20 >> I think this new system has a UEFI bios. >>=20 >> I just read from https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI: >> * Partitions not seen. When using GPT, FreeBSD will create a = protective MBR. This MBR has one partition entry covering the whole = disk. FreeBSD marks this partition active. This causes at least some = UEFI implementations to ignore the GPT. To fix this the partition needs = to be marked inactive. >> * Filesystem not seen. FreeBSD's FAT32 code appears to sometimes = create filesystems that the UEFI code can't properly read. If the = filesystem is small enough, use FAT16 or FAT12 instead. >>=20 >> I think this may be my issue. But 9.1 LiveCD does boot and I can see = the data once booted, so there must be a way to fix the boot loader on = the drive to work. >=20 > Good catch. The fix landed in stable not so long ago = (http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=3Drevision&revision=3D255017) so = you wouldn't find it in 9.2 either. Can you try this: >=20 > gpart unset -a active ada0 It says 'active' is an invalid attribute. This matches what gpart = mangpage says under ATTRIBUTES .. it doesn't list 'active' as an = attribute for the GPT partition scheme (but it does for other schemes). = I did try to unset 'bootme' but that did not help either. =20 Do I need the newer version of gpart to be able to unset or set it? --Andy=