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 > >>>

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 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

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 , Dan > N > aumov writes: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John 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 wrote= > > : > > >> > On Fri, Jan 22

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-24 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Dan N aumov writes: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John 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 wrote= > : > >> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. wro= > te: > >> >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 a

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John 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 wrote: >> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi

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 wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >>> I recently found a nifty "FreeBSD ZFS ro

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-24 Thread Romain Garbage
2010/1/22, Dan Naumov : > 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 zfs-freebsd partit

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. 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 b

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. 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 partitioning

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 everythin

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