Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:57:03 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Edho P Arief <edhoprima@gmail.com> Subject: Re: broken pmbr? Message-ID: <200907201057.03777.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <a3780c060907171942o4378de52y3d3fd401cb1067e8@mail.gmail.com> References: <a3780c060907171942o4378de52y3d3fd401cb1067e8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 17 July 2009 10:42:07 pm Edho P Arief wrote: > I just managed to, um, break my installation boot using these steps: > > 1. system with at least two disks (say ad0 and ad4) > 2. create gpt partition on ad0 > 3. create at least one freebsd-ufs on ad0 > 4. install freebsd on ad4 using gpt ( http://m8d.de/news/freebsd-on-gpt.php ) > 5. reboot and boot to ad4 > 6. 'Missing boot loader' > > (Rearranging ad0 to adX where X>4 or removing ad0 solves the problem, btw) > > Does pmbr only search first drive with gpt it found? /boot/pmbr only looks on the current disk, yes. You could put the boot partition on ad0 and then put a /boot.config in the UFS partition on ad0 that points to ad4 if you want it to find the boot loader from ad4 instead of ad0. -- John Baldwin
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