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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.

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