Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:53:13 +0200 From: "Alexey Shuvaev" <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Booting from gpt on i386/amd64? Message-ID: <20080829205313.GA30330@wep4017.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hello list!
I have tried to install a system with pure gpt partitioning,
but haven't managed to boot from it.
Partition table:
=> 34 976773101 ad6 GPT (500.1GB)
34 1571840 1 freebsd-ufs (804.8MB)
1571874 8388608 2 freebsd-swap (4.3GB)
9960482 1024 3 freebsd-boot (524.3KB)
9961506 8388608 4 freebsd-ufs (4.3GB)
18350114 524288 5 freebsd-ufs (268.4MB)
18874402 134217728 6 freebsd-ufs (68.7GB)
153092130 823681005 - free - (421.7GB)
All necessary files are already installed (ad6p1 = /, ad6p4 = /var, and
so on). The system is 8.0-CURRENT from 8 August (bootable usb flash).
Computer is Core2Duo E8400 3.0 GHz, 4 Gb RAM, ICH9, 500 GB SATA.
What have been done:
gpart bootcode -b /path/to/pmbr ad6
[Successful]
gpart bootcode -p /path/to/gptboot -i 3 ad6
gpart: /dev/ad6p3: Invalid argument
I have tried to 'newfs /dev/ad6p3' and then mounting it and copying
gptboot into 'boot' directory on ad6p3, but looking at the sources it
seems to be wrong.
Then I tried to 'dd if=gptboot of=/dev/ad6p3 bs=512',
but in all cases during the boot the blinking cursor moves 1 line down
and computer freezes here.
Is it my local problem?
What is the correct procedure of preparing gpt-only BIOS-bootable system?
Thanks,
Alexey.
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