On 2009.08.17 09:32:54 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2009 5:07:49 pm Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have installed 8.0-BETA2 amd64 on ZFS root with GPT. I made addition > > partition and > > made new ZFS pool, builded and installed i386 world and kernel to this > > pool. > > So, is there some way to select from which partition i want to boot? > > Not currently unless you hardcode a specific partition in /boot.config. (You > may need a patch from jhay@ to fix the parsing of that file though.) I > believe someone (can't recall who) has some changes in a p4 branch to extend > gptboot to support a fancier interface with a menu of possible partitions, > etc.
I have been playing around with gptboot, but it's not ready for any kind of general use yet. So far I parse and print the complete partition table and has the start of a framework to configure gptboot directly similar to boot0cfg. One of the first features I plan to have working is to be able to select which partition to boot, but it's not the main goal - that's nextboot like functionality. The WIP can be find in FreeBSD.org perforce at //depot/user/simon/gptboot/... AKA http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/user/simon/gptboot/&c=2qs@//depot/user/simon/gptboot/?ac=83 -- Simon L. Nielsen _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
