Boot Loader Issue

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Sun Jun 23 23:12:13 UTC 2013


On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:47:53 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote:
> I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice. 
> How do I do that?  I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that.

You need to install the GPT boot code, e. g.

	# gpart add -t freebsd-boot -l gpboot -b 40 -s 512K ad0
	# gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ad0

See http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html for
details.

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