Re: gpart and mbr give "no operating system" message at boot.

2012-09-07 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:00:24 -0600, markham breitbach wrote: > I was always under the impression that partition 3 was not to be touched as > the "raw" > partition, so figured it was best left alone. No, that is regarding traditional partitioning. But it's not the 3rd partition, it's the 'c' parti

Re: gpart and mbr give "no operating system" message at boot.

2012-09-07 Thread markham breitbach
Thanks Warren! I was always under the impression that partition 3 was not to be touched as the "raw" partition, so figured it was best left alone. I was mostly concerned with installing MBR so it would still be compatible with sysinstall, although I can't really think of a terribly good reason no

Re: gpart and mbr give "no operating system" message at boot.

2012-09-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, markham breitbach wrote: I am trying to partition a disk to be used as the primary boot disk for a FreeBSD 8.3 installation using gpart to install an MBR partition. The system is an existing FreeBSD 5.2.1 system at a remote location (ie impossible to boot from CD/netboot/e

gpart and mbr give "no operating system" message at boot.

2012-09-07 Thread markham breitbach
I am trying to partition a disk to be used as the primary boot disk for a FreeBSD 8.3 installation using gpart to install an MBR partition. The system is an existing FreeBSD 5.2.1 system at a remote location (ie impossible to boot from CD/netboot/etc), but has no data of value. To do this I am