From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 20 13:59:49 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 46825ED9 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:59:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from c.kworr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-la0-x22a.google.com (mail-la0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C295C2950 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f42.google.com with SMTP id ep20so360680lab.1 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 06:59:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=530aFNUN3rF1YMdHpUlCdETKzYo0TsndCwJ/59f0quI=; b=imDO4c0syEEgAeXgs0ySJfHE6BaYjdZr/KYFq2JPbnPP4aP9O4uAKujz5K9sWQYDqL q3ILZoKy/xtP6nrA+koyjk4tvtEG/A4Dq7Es3LvpgxEsonmbuTfz08nM0xBthrA0PgVA Ccth8GRcnepBKF4kwYSMHLhyz8qoI8PSoMPlS6fBtUrFH0ua1v/b5ArO3QsFhjpNVcHN rwObYVjrb5R5mdYcnCOldME+SevUIJ3aqMhxBIqENyC198/idOq1M3pa1APPk9TCUHbe cbzcWVtlL3cCT8g3bjzmueWklpWZy29SGb5tKbsEkWARvpP74jIaIWIsWSgyB5VNQ5/F xsfw== X-Received: by 10.152.3.42 with SMTP id 10mr6399890laz.22.1379685586704; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 06:59:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.130] (mau.donbass.com. [92.242.127.250]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id o1sm6036316lah.8.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 20 Sep 2013 06:59:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <523C54D1.70409@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:59:45 +0300 From: Volodymyr Kostyrko User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Moran , "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup 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> <297B5E1D-40E0-4745-80D3-26EF38A931EC@yahoo.com> <20130919162817.GH14220@funkthat.com> <3485DA0E-615F-46DA-8683-C74DF241F512@yahoo.com> <523BBE1F.5070909@FreeBSD.org> <98F04B43-AEE1-4C55-B459-FEBAD8384A0A@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <98F04B43-AEE1-4C55-B459-FEBAD8384A0A@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:59:49 -0000 20.09.2013 10:41, Andy Moran wrote: >>> WIth the 10-ALPHA2 LiveCD, I get: >>> >>> gpart: attrib 'active': Device not configured >>> >> >> GPT partitions don't have active attribute. You should omit -i argument. >> Just run `gpart unset -a active ada0`. >> >> -- >> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov >> >> -- >> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov > > > That ran without errors.. but sadly did not solve my problem of the UEFI not recognizing it as a bootable disk. I think the problem is my particular UEFI doesn't recognize GPT drives that don't have an EFI partition on them. > > So I gave up. My server has been down for too long. I took half the zfs mirror, created it with a MBR partition and installed FreeBSD 9.2 on it, and my UEFI can boot it in legacy mode. From there I can mount the other half of the mirror and copy files off. A painful process but at least I have a way forward. Please, name your poison on list so that successors can google it in case someone wants to by the same piece of hardware. -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.