Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

[Andy Moran]

On Sep 19, 2013, at 8:16 PM, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 20.09.2013 06:34, Andy Moran wrote:
>> WIth the 10-ALPHA2 LiveCD, I get:
>> 
>> gpart: attrib 'active': Device not configured
>> 
> 
> GPT partitions don't have active attribute. You should omit -i argument.
> Just run `gpart unset -a active ada0`.
> 
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> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
> 
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> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


That ran without errors.. but sadly did not solve my problem of the UEFI not recognizing it as a bootable disk.     I think the problem is my particular UEFI doesn't recognize GPT drives that don't have an EFI partition on them. 

So I gave up.  My server has been down for too long.   I took half the zfs mirror, created it with a MBR partition and installed FreeBSD 9.2 on it, and my UEFI can boot it in legacy mode.   From there I can mount the other half of the mirror and copy files off.   A painful process but at least I have a way forward.   

Thanks for the suggestions.  

--Andy