using gpart(8) to slice a disk

Wed Apr 6 17:05:50 UTC 2011

El día Monday, February 28, 2011 a las 02:40:37PM +0000, Bruce Cran escribió:

> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:52:44 +0100
> Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> 
> > I've read the man page of gpart(8) but do not see clearly what I did
> > wrong with the above sequence and esp. what would have set the missing
> > boot flag?
> 
> gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4

I did again an installation (9-CURRENT), but even the above command did
not made the disk boot-able; the fdisk part of sysinstall(8) did not
show the 'A' flag; setting it with fdisk made the system booting fine;

any idea? thanks

	matthias

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