Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:06:43 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> Subject: Re: Howto setup multiboot with GPT? Message-ID: <20090820180643.GA1243@arthur.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <200908170932.54700.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <147751250284069@webmail117.yandex.ru> <200908170932.54700.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 2009.08.17 09:32:54 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2009 5:07:49 pm Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have installed 8.0-BETA2 amd64 on ZFS root with GPT. I made addition partition and > > made new ZFS pool, builded and installed i386 world and kernel to this pool. > > So, is there some way to select from which partition i want to boot? > > Not currently unless you hardcode a specific partition in /boot.config. (You > may need a patch from jhay@ to fix the parsing of that file though.) I > believe someone (can't recall who) has some changes in a p4 branch to extend > gptboot to support a fancier interface with a menu of possible partitions, > etc. I have been playing around with gptboot, but it's not ready for any kind of general use yet. So far I parse and print the complete partition table and has the start of a framework to configure gptboot directly similar to boot0cfg. One of the first features I plan to have working is to be able to select which partition to boot, but it's not the main goal - that's nextboot like functionality. The WIP can be find in FreeBSD.org perforce at //depot/user/simon/gptboot/... AKA http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/user/simon/gptboot/&c=2qs@//depot/user/simon/gptboot/?ac=83 -- Simon L. Nielsen
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