booting from GPT

Artis Caune artis.caune at gmail.com
Wed May 20 09:25:41 UTC 2009


> I ran into a similar problem with an Atom board here.
> The problem was here that the BIOS sees a MBR partition table (the
> protective MBR with 1 GPT partition) without a booblable partition.
> If you mark this GPT partition to bootable inside the protective MBR
> with sfdisk on ${dev} or something similar, it should work.

Thanks Lucius,

# echo "a 1" |fdisk -qf- ${dev}

did the trick.


I also found PR for this:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=133493


Actually, there is a gpart command to set partition active, but it
works only for MBR:
# gpart set -a active -i 1 ${dev}




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Artis Caune

    Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.


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