From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 13:30:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB60151 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:30:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm8-vm0.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm8-vm0.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.203]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E4D48FC08 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:30:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.82.105.244] by nm8.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 13:30:17 -0000 Received: from [217.146.189.64] by tm16.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 13:30:17 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp144.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Nov 2012 13:30:17 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1353850217; bh=k8h967iie2hYuri3cwm/xVyXKRkTuwaiY7vaOHn1Q1o=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=lH8KkBiJXZPSFy615G9EgLw0Q1ZQnML5fNvAKHpJE/TG+ZYMjgAYEMp/Ic/uEqMPjX8KUmtVVMKqFCF9Im9YRBV14/rfUD6anH8+l3Rn5v3bbWp/XD2Y3ho8OnOFifL6tqREi89M08h/JBH76kLtBXv7lhADYb8aEaufI8u6SUk= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 649838.93669.bm@smtp144.mail.ird.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: XGPdILoVM1mrjpdo1uOoiart.iErjzmgryg90JC9arFvem8 DCAoHz6g7phLPd2UvkopwkArv7miunV8_hctUVbC6v9450zSXEapU7ddsyi6 WzkP6J1YrX1UwATYmRRiH0TVYs_jqFjxnorcCVEStoQJfjNpmzMisqTqNZfJ eUBkIwnvfzfB2.pioMVOs6ItYEFCiC9jg_gNS9GtAn638Pdmb55sgXMbU1DZ RWo9OFOQfkF93Uh.V9xtAmPMC0WQAnir107lLKbBs3GWkQVlKJOrNAQDZCK_ aEN2OCaG0GFP9CwXmX2Kst5g.VZtqqVTIN09T7uEohynrjN_xlbaGK1hngM6 egJKLn04DRoPqkGhCv7bLot.f_ywaIf1XeHxZl4c_de7P7sFiEoxkcaY0Gqp 7KOHAZ6rnGNFVOe0dpW.J9AwXp493RBui_5Z8EOXj5eyu_BlF0EpB281BJPC 50sweFsyPR6IMnx7.e4ly7eZWw0tlft2iCCA_96Z4aoQqClEO9LMIzBZnsRS rNOFx.zpufAsWswxGX9AusEQ- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [85.182.22.141] (ralf.mardorf@85.182.22.141 with login) by smtp144.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2012 05:30:17 -0800 PST Message-ID: <1353850217.2508.64.camel@q> Subject: Re: Manually partitioning using gpart From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:30:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1353848249.2508.41.camel@q> References: <1353842774.2508.18.camel@q> <50B20FD9.9070405@bnrlabs.com> <1353848249.2508.41.camel@q> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:30:20 -0000 At the moment I still have: This is what I've got: # gpart show ada0 => 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G) 63 121274683 - free - (57G) [snip] Regarding to http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html for my set up it should be ok to run: # gpart add -t freebsd-boot -l boot -b 40 -s 512K ada0 # gpart add -t freebsd-swap -l swap -s 8G ada0 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l root -b 1M ada0 Should use all the free space, so no option -s?! # newfs -U /dev/gpt/root # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0 Will install the FreeBSD bootloader independent of the GRUB in the MBR? My GRUB menu.lst still is: timeout 8 default 0 color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue title FreeBSD 9.0 root (hd0,a) kernel /boot/loader [snip] So kernel /boot/loader has to be replaced by /boot/foo? /etc/fstab: # Device Mountpoint FS Options Dump Pass# <-- is this "#" needed at the end? Or is it ok like this: # Device Mountpoint FS Options Dump Pass And this are the entries I need: /dev/gpt/swap none swap sw 0 0 /dev/gpt/root / ufs rw 1 1 *???* Ralf