On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Mike Tancsa wrote:

On 8/5/2014 10:37 PM, Warren Block wrote:
gpart create -s BSD -n 20 md0s1

Bootcode is needed in the bsdlabel also:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_old_standard_mbr


gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot md0s1

Thanks Warren! That got it all working! I think I am starting to better understand all the boot magic. Much appreciated.

Excellent!

MBR/bsdlabel is a partition format wrapped in a partition format wrapped in confusion. Most of the time, GPT can be used now, and it is much simpler. One partition table, up to 128 partitions with the standard configuration, essentially no limit on sizes.
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