> 30.03.10, 14:03, "Daniel Braniss" <da...@cs.huji.ac.il>: > > > > On 30.03.2010 12:05, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > > > so it seems that someone is preventing changes to the partition table! > > > > btw, this problem was not present in older boot0 (1.0) where the active > > > > partition flag is ignored. > > > > > > You can change active partition via gpart(8). > > > > > Hi Andrey, > > I'm sorry, I've reread the manual, and can't find the write magic. > > Yes, i also doesn't remember where it can be read. Only in g_part_mbr.c :) > Try this: > # gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2 > This will set active first partition on ada2: > # gpart show ada2 > => 63 1250263665 ada2 MBR (596G) > 63 40965687 1 !7 [active] (20G) > 40965750 1209292875 2 !7 (577G) > 1250258625 5103 - free - (2.5M) > > > btw, boot0cfg does call geom but something seems to be broken. > I'll look boot0cfg code today and probably made a patch. ok, that worked! now if you can get boot0cfg to work that would realy be nice. thanks, danny
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