Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 11:52:31 +0300 From: Artis Caune <artis.caune@gmail.com> To: Lucius Windschuh <lwindschuh@googlemail.com> Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from GPT Message-ID: <9e20d71e0905200152v5aa1d440of914795751e4b6c3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <90a5caac0905191210p7cdd57b5p5c1eb78727484784@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e20d71e0905190705re842e2fl3af1220a658ca8ae@mail.gmail.com> <90a5caac0905191210p7cdd57b5p5c1eb78727484784@mail.gmail.com>
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> I ran into a similar problem with an Atom board here.
> The problem was here that the BIOS sees a MBR partition table (the
> protective MBR with 1 GPT partition) without a booblable partition.
> If you mark this GPT partition to bootable inside the protective MBR
> with sfdisk on ${dev} or something similar, it should work.
Thanks Lucius,
# echo "a 1" |fdisk -qf- ${dev}
did the trick.
I also found PR for this:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=133493
Actually, there is a gpart command to set partition active, but it
works only for MBR:
# gpart set -a active -i 1 ${dev}
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Artis Caune
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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