Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 04:02:55 -0700 (PDT) From: David LeCount <snailboy1@yahoo.com> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble getting new raid array to boot Message-ID: <335194.30011.qm@web57001.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90910082041i5a3d8ff1j7dd2ac295bfed28a@mail.gmail.com>
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> Then my answer would be missing MBR or boot blocks, an
> active
> partition alone won't make a system boot. it's just a
> flag to say
> which partition is bootable, but doesn't mean that the boot
> flag
> itself makes the partition boot.
>
>
> fdisk(8) and bsdlabel(8) -- see the -B option to both.
>
>
> If you have a dangerously dedicated disk, ignore
> fdisk. If you don't
> have a bsdlabel, ignore bsdlabel.
>
> I do both on any standard install.
I set sade to install a FreeBSD boot manager. Just to be sure, I just tried fdisk -B aacd0 and bsdlabel -B aacd0s1 and I'm still getting the same invalid partition error.
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