From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 30 16:37:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638FD1065672 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:37:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from root@free.fr) Received: from smtp5-g21.free.fr (smtp5-g21.free.fr [IPv6:2a01:e0c:1:1599::14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86948FC14 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:37:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from free.fr (unknown [82.235.65.2]) by smtp5-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D885D48144 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:37:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Raoul MEGELAS To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:37:48 +0200 Sender: root@free.fr Message-Id: <20120930163750.0D885D48144@smtp5-g21.free.fr> Subject: gpart on macbook air X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:37:56 -0000 Hi all, i installed CURRENT on a macbook air (internal ssd as you know): i noticed the following: 1. on freebsd, deleting a partition with gpart: say gpart delete -i 4 ada0 dammage the osx boot. of cours, booting with a backup disk and repairing the disk make it functional again. any light woukd be appreciated on this topic. 2. my gpart partitions table looks like this: => 34 490234685 ada0 GPT (233G) 34 6 - free - (3.0k) 40 409600 1 efi (200M) 409640 449218744 2 apple-hfs (214G) 449628384 1269536 3 apple-boot (619M) 450897920 256 4 freebsd-boot (128k) 450898176 1024000 5 freebsd-swap (500M) 451922176 38312543 6 freebsd-ufs (18G) no special mbr: planty of 00 and at offset 1be only the efi table, mapping the entire disk. the refit sourceforge project soft, does not recognizes the gpt freebsd-boot. and i cannot find how to boot from the internal drive. i hope i am sufficiently clear? of course, i can boot at this time from an external FreeBSD drive with a mbr and a label; this works. Is it a solution to solve this problem other booting from an external drive/Usb keyflash card? Thanks a lot for your time and reply. Raoul rmgls