Hi Warren, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:41:10 -0700 (MST) Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I followed http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html > > to create bootable disks with GPT. > > > > As you know from my former post, I tried to boot via USB from a GPT > > disk and failed. I inserted the disk into the notebook and bootin > > also failed. > > > > Irony is that inserting the MBR disk into the USB case results also > > in a failure but much later. > > What failure? it is all getting really confusing for me. When I try now your example, it also fails: [X220]/home/erich (root) > gpart destroy -F da0 da0 destroyed [X220]/home/erich (root) > gpart show da0 gpart: No such geom: da0. [X220]/home/erich (root) > gpart create -s mbr da0 da0 created [X220]/home/erich (root) > gpart show da0 => 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 312581745 - free - (149G) [X220]/home/erich (root) > gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr da0 bootcode written to da0 [X220]/home/erich (root) > gpart show da0 => 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 312581745 - free - (149G) [X220]/home/erich (root) > gpart add -t freebsd da0 da0s1 added [X220]/home/erich (root) > gpart show da0 => 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 312581745 1 freebsd (149G) [X220]/home/erich (root) > gpart set -a active -i 1 da0 active set on da0s1 [X220]/home/erich (root) > gpart show da0 => 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 312581745 1 freebsd [active] (149G) [X220]/home/erich (root) > gpart create -s bsd da0s1 gpart: geom 'da0s1': File exists [X220]/home/erich (root) > gpart show da0 => 63 312581745 da0 MBR (149G) 63 312581745 1 freebsd [active] (149G) Of course, there was a da0s1 before on the disk. Shouldn't gpart destroy -F da0 have destroyed it all? Erich _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
