Aligning MBR for ZFS boot help

J David j.david.lists at gmail.com
Mon Mar 11 04:19:40 UTC 2013


On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> If FreeBSD had a way to turn off the strict enforcement of CHS values for
> MBR, it would make that unnecessary.
>

The solution to that for a drive of this size *might* be to use fdisk
instead of gpart to do the partitioning, and just flat out lie to it about
the geometry when it asks you if you want to use something other than what
it read.  (Which was also a lie anyway.)


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