Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:51:08 +0700 From: Edho P Arief <edhoprima@gmail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: broken pmbr? Message-ID: <a3780c060907202251g6e5c05b8k78cd08fd554ebae5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200907201057.03777.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <a3780c060907171942o4378de52y3d3fd401cb1067e8@mail.gmail.com> <200907201057.03777.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:57 PM, John Baldwin<jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Friday 17 July 2009 10:42:07 pm Edho P Arief wrote: >> I just managed to, um, break my installation boot using these steps: >> >> 1. system with at least two disks (say ad0 and ad4) >> 2. create gpt partition on ad0 >> 3. create at least one freebsd-ufs on ad0 >> 4. install freebsd on ad4 using gpt ( > http://m8d.de/news/freebsd-on-gpt.php ) >> 5. reboot and boot to ad4 >> 6. 'Missing boot loader' >> >> (Rearranging ad0 to adX where X>4 or removing ad0 solves the problem, bt= w) >> >> Does pmbr only search first drive with gpt it found? > > /boot/pmbr only looks on the current disk, yes. =C2=A0You could put the b= oot > partition on ad0 and then put a /boot.config in the UFS partition on ad0 = that > points to ad4 if you want it to find the boot loader from ad4 instead of = ad0. I looked to me pmbr only find *first* disk-containing-gpt, not the disk where it's booted from. Which means I'll be in trouble if I added a gpt-partitioned-disk positioned before system disk. --=20 O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
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