Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-25 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 25/01/2010 04:41 Robert Noland said the following: On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 07:57 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: offset The offset of the start of the partition from the beginning of the drive in sectors, or * to have bsdlabel calculate the correct offset to use

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
Andriy Gapon wrote: on 25/01/2010 04:41 Robert Noland said the following: On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 07:57 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: offset The offset of the start of the partition from the beginning of the drive in sectors, or * to have bsdlabel calculate the correct

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-25 Thread Robert Noland
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:45 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Andriy Gapon wrote: on 25/01/2010 04:41 Robert Noland said the following: On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 07:57 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: offset The offset of the start of the partition from the beginning of the drive

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-24 Thread Romain Garbage
2010/1/22, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com: Putting the swap into it's own slice and then putting FreeBSD into it's own slice worked fine. So why the hell can't they both coexist in 1 slice if the swap comes first? Similar problem here: I have a full-zfs system in a bsd slice, but I have the

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-24 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:02:53AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: Hi, I recently found

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:02:53AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-24 Thread Mark Andrews
In message cf9b1ee01001240759j2476cf3es2babd8b32a90f...@mail.gmail.com, Dan N aumov writes: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:02:53AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote= :

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Noland
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 07:57 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: In message cf9b1ee01001240759j2476cf3es2babd8b32a90f...@mail.gmail.com, Dan N aumov writes: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:02:53AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: On Fri, Jan

Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it from GPT to MBR partitioning. However, I was stumped, even though I had done everything right (or so I thought), the system would get stuck at Loader and refuse

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Thomas K.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: Hi, I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it from GPT to MBR partitioning. However, I was stumped, even though I had done everything

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: Hi, I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it from GPT to MBR

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: Hi, I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and been reworking