Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:59:45 +0300 From: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> To: Andy Moran <amoran@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup Message-ID: <523C54D1.70409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <98F04B43-AEE1-4C55-B459-FEBAD8384A0A@yahoo.com> References: <1379572619.72405.YahooMailNeo@web121302.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <523AACF8.8080404@gmail.com> <1379598213.765.YahooMailNeo@web121304.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <523B02F6.4070708@gmail.com> <297B5E1D-40E0-4745-80D3-26EF38A931EC@yahoo.com> <20130919162817.GH14220@funkthat.com> <3485DA0E-615F-46DA-8683-C74DF241F512@yahoo.com> <523BBE1F.5070909@FreeBSD.org> <98F04B43-AEE1-4C55-B459-FEBAD8384A0A@yahoo.com>
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20.09.2013 10:41, Andy Moran wrote: >>> WIth the 10-ALPHA2 LiveCD, I get: >>> >>> gpart: attrib 'active': Device not configured >>> >> >> GPT partitions don't have active attribute. You should omit -i argument. >> Just run `gpart unset -a active ada0`. >> >> -- >> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov >> >> -- >> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov > > > That ran without errors.. but sadly did not solve my problem of the UEFI not recognizing it as a bootable disk. I think the problem is my particular UEFI doesn't recognize GPT drives that don't have an EFI partition on them. > > So I gave up. My server has been down for too long. I took half the zfs mirror, created it with a MBR partition and installed FreeBSD 9.2 on it, and my UEFI can boot it in legacy mode. From there I can mount the other half of the mirror and copy files off. A painful process but at least I have a way forward. Please, name your poison on list so that successors can google it in case someone wants to by the same piece of hardware. -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
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