Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:43:46 -0500 From: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Making an mbr boot usb on 8.2-stable Message-ID: <4E115312.4030504@gmail.com>
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I recently changed my raid0 into two raid1's so I can have redundancy. Getting a disk to boot was harder than I ever remember. Part of the problem, my gigabyte bios locks up hard if there's a gpt usb drive plugged in, not even scanning the memory. It seems to be a little known problem. Some of the stuff I read on the internet mentions fdisk being somewhat broken because of geom changes, and I couldn't get a usb disk to boot that I made with fdisk or gpart. I ended up just dd'ing a memstick image from freebsd.org onto a drive and booting that. Annoyingly, the only one supporting zfs v28 is the 9-current image judging by the timestamps. I'm still wanting a rescue disk, and gpt is out of the question. I don't want a cd because I want a full install and to be able to periodically update it. I can partition the drive, install freebsd on it, but it won't boot. I've tried gpart, fdisk, and sade but I can't seem to be able to make it actually boot or even reach loader. I think the furthest I got was boot1.
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