From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 03:12:54 2010 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 B40231065677 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 03:12:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcw@speakeasy.net) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997418FC08 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 03:12:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31420 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2010 03:12:52 -0000 Received: from s5.stradamotorsports.com (HELO [192.168.1.182]) (jcw@[64.81.163.123]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Jun 2010 03:12:52 -0000 Message-ID: <4C0F06B4.9070300@speakeasy.net> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:12:52 -0700 From: "Jason C. Wells" User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd general questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Configure PMBR to Find Loader on GPT Disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:12:54 -0000 After setting up a GPT disk and installing the boot blocks with: # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ad4 The system wants to boot: 0:ad(0p2)/boot/kernel/kernel I manually intervene to cause the system to boot: 1:ad(5p8)/boot/loader How do I configure the boot blocks to do this without human intervention on a GPT system? boot0cfg doesn't seem to be the correct tool for this job. Thanks, Jason