Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 10:33:29 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Raimundo Santos <raitech@gmail.com>, Volker Nebel <vnebel@web.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD on a Macintosh? Message-ID: <52DBFE59.3060101@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGQ6iC-aKt83cBUR-Tv_zOE6_6Pz5NH8AHJ_P2uvgRRZ3CjfyQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401141804450.1273@localhost> <52D6D32A.9010506@rancid.berkeley.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401152021130.1411@localhost> <CAGQ6iC-aKt83cBUR-Tv_zOE6_6Pz5NH8AHJ_P2uvgRRZ3CjfyQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/19/14 09:24, Raimundo Santos wrote: > On 15 January 2014 17:26, Volker Nebel <vnebel@web.de> wrote: > >> Is type freebsd-boot wrong? > > Hello Volker, > > in MBR you do not need a boot partition. With the way MBR works you just > need to set an active boot partition and write the right boot code where > you need it. > > mdoc.su/f/gpart manpage have good example of doing this: > > Create an MBR scheme on *ada0*, then create a 30GB-sized FreeBSD slice, > mark it active and install the *boot0* boot manager: > > /sbin/gpart create -s MBR ada0 > /sbin/gpart add -t freebsd -s 30G ada0 > /sbin/gpart set -a active -i 1 ada0 > /sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ada0 > > Now create a BSD scheme (BSD label) with space for up to 20 partitions: > > /sbin/gpart create -s BSD -n 20 ada0s1 > > Create a 1GB-sized UFS partition and a 4GB-sized swap partition: > > /sbin/gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1G ada0s1 > /sbin/gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 4G ada0s1 > > Install bootstrap code for the BSD label: > > /sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot ada0s1 > > Never try MBR creation within installer paprtition manager, maybe it create > all these for you. > It does, in fact, if you select an MBR scheme. -Nathan
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