It seems that quite a few BIOSes have serious issues booting off disks using GPT partitioning when no partition present is marked as "active". See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115406&cat=bin for a prime example.
In 8.0-RELEASE, using gpart, setting a slice as "active" in MBR partitioning mode is trivial, ie: gpart set -a active -i 1 DISKNAME However, trying to do the same thing with GPT partitioning yields no results: gpart set -a active -i 1 DISKNAME gpart: attrib 'active': Device not configured As a result of this issue, I can configure and make a succesfull install using GPT in 8.0, but I cannot boot off it using my Intel D945GCLF2 board. I have found this discussion from about a month ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg106918.html where Robert mentions that "gpart set -a active -i 1" is no longer needed in 8-STABLE, because the pmbr will be marked as active during the installation of the bootcode. Is there anything I can do to archieve the same result in 8.0-RELEASE or is installing from a snapshop of 8-STABLE my only option? Thanks. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
