On Tue, 2018-10-30 at 21:37 +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > I have disk with GPT scheme and three partitions: > > p1 - freebsd-boot > p2 - freebsd-ufs > p3 - freebsd-ufs > > pmbr is installed on this disk, and gptboot is installed on p1. Both > p2 > and p3 contains valid FreeBSD installation, with /boot/loader, > kernel, > and everything. > > I have attribute "bootme" set on p3, but not on p2. > > What should I do to boot from p2? > > I've tried to interrupt gptboot and override its choice: > > 0:ad(0p3)/boot/loader > > with > > 0:ad(0p2)/boot/loader > > After that loader, loaded from p2, loads kernel from p3 and boots > system from p3! > > If I have MBR, I could override "active" slice in boot0 MBR loader > interactively. > > Is it analogous feature for GPT? >
While loader(8) is loading the kernel, interrupt it to get the console prompt (or ask the menu to give the prompt if you use menus) and do: unload set currdev=disk0p2 boot -- Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
