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Date:      Wed, 6 Sep 2017 23:55:48 +0300
From:      Christos Chatzaras <chris@cretaforce.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   problem booting from 2nd drive
Message-ID:  <4B828DE3-C784-45A9-A01B-F944DAFE1601@cretaforce.gr>

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I used dump/restore commands to copy a custom freebsd 11.1 to a new =
server. After I restore the files I create gmirror (RAID-1) and copy the =
bootcode to both disks:

gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada1

When I select from BIOS to boot using 1st disk (ada0) then it boots =
without issue. If I select to boot from 2nd disk (ada1) then it hangs =
and restarts again and again.


gpart show

=3D>        40  7814037088  ada0  GPT  (3.6T)
          40         472     1  freebsd-boot  (236K)
         512     8388608     2  freebsd-ufs  (4.0G)
     8389120   134217728     3  freebsd-swap  (64G)
   142606848    33554432     4  freebsd-ufs  (16G)
   176161280   134217728     5  freebsd-ufs  (64G)
   310379008    33554432     6  freebsd-ufs  (16G)
   343933440  1073741824     7  freebsd-ufs  (512G)
  1417675264  6396361856     8  freebsd-ufs  (3.0T)
  7814037120           8        - free -  (4.0K)

=3D>        40  7814037088  ada1  GPT  (3.6T)
          40         472     1  freebsd-boot  (236K)
         512     8388608     2  freebsd-ufs  (4.0G)
     8389120   134217728     3  freebsd-swap  (64G)
   142606848    33554432     4  freebsd-ufs  (16G)
   176161280   134217728     5  freebsd-ufs  (64G)
   310379008    33554432     6  freebsd-ufs  (16G)
   343933440  1073741824     7  freebsd-ufs  (512G)
  1417675264  6396361856     8  freebsd-ufs  (3.0T)
  7814037120           8        - free -  (4.0K)


The message I get during boot is:

gptboot: invalid primary GPT header
gptboot: invalid backup GPT header
gptboot: unable to load GPT


Any idea what the issue could be?



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