gpart

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:06:24 -0500
Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/31/2013 8:54 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > I have had only one problem with this description. I could not boot
> > from a GPT setup on my machine done as described there. But I have a
> > disk done with PCBSD based on 9.0 which booted well. I cannot tell
> > you if this is a problem caused by a later chance on the side of
> > FreeBSD.
> 
> Did you make sure to install the gpt bootloader instead of the
> standard bootloader?  I believe I have the gptzfsboot, so I have no
> UFS partitions and everything's partitioned with GPT.  There's no
> guarantee it will fix it, bios quirks happens.

it is a real weird thing. As I installed a PCBSD on that disk
originally, I have had a running system. It stopped working after some
FreeBSD update. As this is an external disk, I do not boot often from
it. I use it mainly for backup purpose.

I stopped working on this problem for some time but I will have to go
back soon after other work is finished.

Erich