From owner-freebsd-ia64 Tue Feb 4 12:34:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62CDC37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 12:34:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.rice.edu (cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06C843FA7 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 12:34:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jnavarro@cs.rice.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id 618D04A9F4; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:34:25 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8594A9DF; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:34:25 -0600 (CST) Received: from cs.rice.edu (luche.cs.rice.edu [128.42.3.219]) by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBEBD4AA19; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:34:15 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3E4023C7.657B8CD5@cs.rice.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 14:34:15 -0600 From: Juan E Navarro X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: "freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: MBR/GPT mess :-) [was: Re: Problems with fxp driver] References: <3E35E4A9.3C8A4845@cs.rice.edu> <20030128021356.GA1228@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <3E38AC98.E8C6FF17@cs.rice.edu> <20030130045351.GB1574@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <3E38B494.7250D2AE@cs.rice.edu> <20030130055100.GA1717@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 X-DCC--Metrics: cs.rice.edu 1066; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > Ok. The "bogus map" error is an indication that you have both an > MBR partition and a GPT partition that overlap. Now the really > bad news: you cannot fix this easily, because we have a new disk > partitioning framework that tries to be helpful. It's designed > to be a pain in the ass :-( I guess the easy fix is to wipe the entire disk, repartition and reinstall. Diskpart doesn't work because it complains that the disk is an MBR disk. I might do that with one of the two machines I'm playing with. The other machine has 2 disks. One is a sane GPT disk with an EFI and a Windows partition. The other disk has the MBR/GPT problem (due to a previous Linux installation?). For now I'm unsing the EFI partition of the sane disk to boot FreeBSD: if I mount that partition in /boot and add vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:da0s1a" to /boot/loader.conf, then I can recompile the kernel and enjoy unattended reboots. I suppose that as long as nobody tries to use the GPT partitions of the FreeBSD disk then I'm OK. Is that a safe assumption? -- ++*Juan-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message