From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 15 08:34:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DBC810657C9 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:34:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from kabab.cs.huji.ac.il (kabab.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC33B8FC17 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by kabab.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1T1YwR-000Gfo-O4 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:27:03 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:27:03 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss Message-ID: Subject: GPT boot from 2nd. disk fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:34:45 -0000 hi, this host has to disks: sa0> gpart show => 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (465G) 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 162 4194304 2 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 4194466 33554432 3 freebsd-swap (16G) 37748898 939024237 4 freebsd-zfs (447G) => 34 976773101 ada1 GPT (465G) 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 162 4194304 2 freebsd-ufs [bootme] (2.0G) 4194466 8388608 3 freebsd-swap (4.0G) 12583074 964190061 4 freebsd-zfs (459G) but no amount of magic will cause boot from the second disk, it will always boot from the first disk. any insights? danny