From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 17:05:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F0D1065687 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:05:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665D68FC18 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:05:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [93.104.79.230] (helo=localhost.my.domain) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7WAt-0007H6-Jh; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:05:48 +0200 Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p36H5jiE002279; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:05:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id p36H5iW7002278; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:05:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:05:43 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Bruce Cran Message-ID: <20110406170543.GA2264@tinyCurrent> References: <20110228135243.GA3148@sh4-5.1blu.de> <20110228144037.00007337@unknown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20110228144037.00007337@unknown> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 93.104.79.230 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using gpart(8) to slice a disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:05:50 -0000 El día Monday, February 28, 2011 a las 02:40:37PM +0000, Bruce Cran escribió: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:52:44 +0100 > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > I've read the man page of gpart(8) but do not see clearly what I did > > wrong with the above sequence and esp. what would have set the missing > > boot flag? > > gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4 I did again an installation (9-CURRENT), but even the above command did not made the disk boot-able; the fdisk part of sysinstall(8) did not show the 'A' flag; setting it with fdisk made the system booting fine; any idea? thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/