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From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 08:59:52 -0453.75
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On 10/06/15 23:48, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>> On 10/06/15 14:33, Polytropon wrote:
>>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 08:25:06 -0453.75, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>> >When I went to reboot, the UEFI 'BIOS' reported
>>>> >'missing MBR record' & hung there.
>>> Do you have "MBR legacy boot" enabled or forced? When using GPT
>>> volumes, one of them has to be a "boot partition". Here you can
>>> find a good illustration of the steps involved:
>>>
>>> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_new_standard_gpt 
>>>
>>>
>>> By the way, it's more like either "BIOS"_or_  "UEFI".;-)
>>
>>
>> I have seen that page, & its sibling showing how to setup a RAID1 on 
>> 2 disks, *very* helpful, & I think updated recently, they used to 
>> have the MBR stuff at the top of the page & GPT farther down. I am 
>> following http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/gmirror.html 
>> pretty closely in my setup,
>
> Please read the warning at the top of that page.  The Handbook shows 
> the right way of using gmirror(8).  My page on it mirrors GPT 
> partitions, which is likely to be a problem if one of the drives ever 
> fails.  If you absolutely have to use gmirror(8) with GPT, use only 
> one partition per drive.
>


Hmmmm .... OK, I sorta glossed over that, pilot error. Sooooo .... a bit 
of a rethink ....


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