Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

[Volodymyr Kostyrko]

20.09.2013 10:41, 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
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> 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.

Please, name your poison on list so that successors can google it in 
case someone wants to by the same piece of hardware.

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