From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 17 14:11:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A09B106568B for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:11:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4D38FC3F for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:11:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E430346B2D; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:11:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.hudson-trading.com (unknown [209.249.190.8]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3F5338A01D; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:11:49 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:32:54 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <147751250284069@webmail117.yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <147751250284069@webmail117.yandex.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908170932.54700.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:11:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Howto setup multiboot with GPT? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:11:50 -0000 On Friday 14 August 2009 5:07:49 pm Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed 8.0-BETA2 amd64 on ZFS root with GPT. I made addition partition and > made new ZFS pool, builded and installed i386 world and kernel to this pool. > So, is there some way to select from which partition i want to boot? Not currently unless you hardcode a specific partition in /boot.config. (You may need a patch from jhay@ to fix the parsing of that file though.) I believe someone (can't recall who) has some changes in a p4 branch to extend gptboot to support a fancier interface with a menu of possible partitions, etc. -- John Baldwin