Some notes on RootOnZFS article in wiki

Ollivier Robert roberto at keltia.freenix.fr
Mon Dec 21 15:05:31 UTC 2009


According to Mel Flynn:
> 2) `gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4' gave me 'active: device not configured'. 
> This error isn't mentioned (debugflags didn't help) in the wiki nor the 
> missing DIAGNOSTICS section in the gpart man page. In my case the system 
> booted, but it's nice to know what the error means and whether you can 

Most of the time, you don't even need it.  On modern machines, system will boot from the GPT "freebsd-boot" partition w/o having it active.

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