Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 04:02:55 -0700 (PDT) From: David LeCount <snailboy1@yahoo.com> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble getting new raid array to boot Message-ID: <335194.30011.qm@web57001.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90910082041i5a3d8ff1j7dd2ac295bfed28a@mail.gmail.com>
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> Then my answer would be missing MBR or boot blocks, an > active > partition alone won't make a system boot. it's just a > flag to say > which partition is bootable, but doesn't mean that the boot > flag > itself makes the partition boot. > > > fdisk(8) and bsdlabel(8) -- see the -B option to both. > > > If you have a dangerously dedicated disk, ignore > fdisk. If you don't > have a bsdlabel, ignore bsdlabel. > > I do both on any standard install. I set sade to install a FreeBSD boot manager. Just to be sure, I just tried fdisk -B aacd0 and bsdlabel -B aacd0s1 and I'm still getting the same invalid partition error.
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