On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:16:07PM +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 8/29/08, Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev_at_physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote: > > 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', ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This command writes gptboot only partially!!! I have padded gptboot to nearest sector boundary and dd-ed it to ad6p3. After that the system booted successfully. As I have expected GENERIC kernel is enough. > > but in all cases during the boot the blinking cursor moves 1 line down > > and computer freezes here. > > The remaining question is what is the correct way to put gptboot to 'freebsd-boot' partition? It seems that this functionality was in gpt(8) but is missing in gpart(8). Any work in progress? While I am here should I look at it? Alexey.Received on Sun Aug 31 2008 - 08:35:58 UTC
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