Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:12:10 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: GPT boot blocks, booting and booteasy Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vukPLPV%2BbM%2BBDV_dDaFmiCBGG8BhhiiRrWHmXCa_NFGQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Running FreeBSD 8-Stable of July 30 and I am trying to figure out a bit about how GPT works. I am unsure of what I can do with boot blocks. 000000000011111111112222222222333333333344444444445555555555666666666677 Here is what I've done so far. I have just created my first GPT structured FreeBSD system and it's all working fine, but I don't have any ability to select booting from another partition or drive. I boot the system and FreeBSD just boots with no option to boot from another disk. I have /boot/pmbr loaded into the PMBR and gptboot into the freebsd-boot partition. I'll admit that I did this by rote and don't understand how these two files interact with the UEFI BIOS to get the loader started. I'm not really certain that I even need both. Is it possible to build a "custom" booteasy boot system with boot0cfg or some other tool so I can select d ifferent bootable partition or my other disk which is sliced in the traditional fashion? Can anyone point me to any information on how the boot process works with GPT? Thanks! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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