gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk

[Robert Noland]

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 10:15 +0200, Thomas Backman wrote:
> > * you don't have the instruction to perform "echo 'a 1' | fdisk -f  
> > - /dev/ad4" which Robert recommends
> Shouldn't be needed if you use gpart. (Note: I haven't actually read  
> the guides, but fdisk and gpart are both partitioning software, and
> I  
> don't see why you'd need *both*. I've made several installs without  
> ever touching fdisk, all ZFS only.)

This step is only needed if you BIOS requires it.  Many/Most do not.  It
is set automatically when you install bootcode to a GPT partitioned disk
on -CURRENT now.

robert.

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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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