Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:05:43 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using gpart(8) to slice a disk Message-ID: <20110406170543.GA2264@tinyCurrent> In-Reply-To: <20110228144037.00007337@unknown> References: <20110228135243.GA3148@sh4-5.1blu.de> <20110228144037.00007337@unknown>
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El día Monday, February 28, 2011 a las 02:40:37PM +0000, Bruce Cran escribió: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:52:44 +0100 > Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > > > I've read the man page of gpart(8) but do not see clearly what I did > > wrong with the above sequence and esp. what would have set the missing > > boot flag? > > gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4 I did again an installation (9-CURRENT), but even the above command did not made the disk boot-able; the fdisk part of sysinstall(8) did not show the 'A' flag; setting it with fdisk made the system booting fine; any idea? thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/
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