Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:30:23 -0700 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks? Message-ID: <510990EF.9040101@dreamchaser.org>
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I used gpart to set up a new disk, then went through a 9.1 install. Everything seemed to go fine, but when time came to boot the new drive, it wouldn't boot. When doing the 9.1 install, I selected the disk and had to assign the partitions to the various filesystems. AFIK, I did not otherwise modify the filesystems. Does the 9.1 install process trash the boot areas? My gpart setup was: clean up (delete) the original partitions gpart destroy ada3 gpart create -s GPT ada3 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada3 gpart add -t freebsd-boot -i 1 -s 512K -l gptboot ada3 gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada3 gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -b 1M -s 4G -i 2 -l fbsdroot ada3 # / gpart add -t freebsd-swap -a 4K -s 2G -i 3 -l fbsdswap ada3 # swap gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -s 2G -i 4 -l fbsdvar ada3 # /var gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -s 2G -i 5 -l fbsdtmp ada3 # /tmp gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -i 6 -l fbsdusr ada3 # /usr newfs /dev/ada3p2 # / newfs -U -b 4096 -g 8192 -i 1024 /dev/ada3p4 # /var newfs -U /dev/ada3p5 # /tmp newfs -U /dev/ada3p6 At this point: gpart show -l ada3 => 34 488397101 ada3 GPT (232G) 34 1024 1 gptboot (512k) 1058 6 - free - (3.0k) 1064 8388608 2 fbsdroot (4.0G) 8389672 4194304 3 fbsdswap (2.0G) 12583976 4194304 4 fbsdvar (2.0G) 16778280 4194304 5 fbsdtmp (2.0G) 20972584 467424544 6 fbsdusr (222G) 488397128 7 - free - (3.5k) The / /var and /usr partitions seem to have been written properly. Do I simply need to rewrite the boot areas, or is something more fundamental screwed up?
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