gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk

[Aristedes Maniatis]

On 22/10/09 11:52 AM, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:48 +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
>> >  Hmmm...  I was hoping for something more useful than that response.
>> >  Where is it documented that I have to do "echo 'a 1' | fdisk -f
>> >  - /dev/ad4" to make a disk bootable?

> I committed a patch the other day that will set the active flag for a
> GPT partitioned disk when you install bootcode on it.


Great. Will that make it to RC2?

Until then, is this the correct procedure to make a disk capable of booting ZFS:

   gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ad4
   echo 'a 1' | fdisk -f - /dev/ad4

Sean mentions that 16 blocks have to be reserved at the start of the disk (to allow for the bootloader?). Will that also go away with your new patch so that the appropriate space is preserved? Will 16 blocks be enough forever?

Thanks

Ari

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