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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:02:17 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd@dreamchaser.org
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks?
Message-ID:  <20745.39017.915990.597481@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <510990EF.9040101@dreamchaser.org>
References:  <510990EF.9040101@dreamchaser.org>

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Gary Aitken writes:

>  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.

	While the "it wouldn't boot" is catastrophically imprecise, I
had what sounds like a similar problem about a month ago.
	I installed from the 9.0 CD and everything appeared to go
correctly.  However, on final re-boot the loader couldn't identify
the root partition.
	The solution was to identify the disks using the GPT labels in
fstab.
	Check the archive of questions@ for more details.



					Robert Huff




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