Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:44:10 +0400 From: Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru> To: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: boot and boot0cfg problem Message-ID: <73161269963850@web103.yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <E1NwZER-000DPW-Mc@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1NwWSU-000BDD-KZ@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <4BB1CE95.2090502@yandex.ru> <E1NwZER-000DPW-Mc@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
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30.03.10, 14:03, "Daniel Braniss" <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>:
> > On 30.03.2010 12:05, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> > > so it seems that someone is preventing changes to the partition table!
> > > btw, this problem was not present in older boot0 (1.0) where the active
> > > partition flag is ignored.
> >
> > You can change active partition via gpart(8).
> >
> Hi Andrey,
> I'm sorry, I've reread the manual, and can't find the write magic.
Yes, i also doesn't remember where it can be read. Only in g_part_mbr.c :)
Try this:
# gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2
This will set active first partition on ada2:
# gpart show ada2
=> 63 1250263665 ada2 MBR (596G)
63 40965687 1 !7 [active] (20G)
40965750 1209292875 2 !7 (577G)
1250258625 5103 - free - (2.5M)
> btw, boot0cfg does call geom but something seems to be broken.
I'll look boot0cfg code today and probably made a patch.
--
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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