Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

2013-09-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 20.09.2013 10:41, Andy Moran wrote: > >> WIth the 10-ALPHA2 LiveCD, I get: gpart: attrib 'active': Device not configured >>> GPT partitions don't have active attribute. You should omit -i argument. >>> Just run `gpart

Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

2013-09-20 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
20.09.2013 10:41, Andy Moran wrote: WIth the 10-ALPHA2 LiveCD, I get: gpart: attrib 'active': Device not configured GPT partitions don't have active attribute. You should omit -i argument. Just run `gpart unset -a active ada0`. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov That ran

Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

2013-09-20 Thread Andy Moran
On Sep 19, 2013, at 8:16 PM, "Andrey V. Elsukov" wrote: > On 20.09.2013 06:34, Andy Moran wrote: >> WIth the 10-ALPHA2 LiveCD, I get: >> >> gpart: attrib 'active': Device not configured >> > > GPT partitions don't have active attribute. You should omit -i argument. > Just run `gpart unset -a

Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

2013-09-19 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 20.09.2013 06:34, Andy Moran wrote: > WIth the 10-ALPHA2 LiveCD, I get: > > gpart: attrib 'active': Device not configured > GPT partitions don't have active attribute. You should omit -i argument. Just run `gpart unset -a active ada0`. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov _

Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

2013-09-19 Thread Andy Moran
Another thought: since the LiveCDs can see my ZFS root pool, would it be possible to create a CD or memstick image just for the boot loader that then boots the OS of the hard drive? --Andy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

2013-09-19 Thread Andy Moran
On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:28 AM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Andy Moran wrote this message on Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:12 -0700: >> >> On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: >> >>> 19.09.2013 16:43, Andrew Moran wrote: Alas, that did not work. But it does look to be BIOS rel

Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

2013-09-19 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Andy Moran wrote this message on Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:12 -0700: > > On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > > > 19.09.2013 16:43, Andrew Moran wrote: > >> Alas, that did not work. But it does look to be BIOS related. > >> > >> I think this new system has a UEFI bios. > >

Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

2013-09-19 Thread Andy Moran
On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 19.09.2013 16:43, Andrew Moran wrote: >> Alas, that did not work. But it does look to be BIOS related. >> >> I think this new system has a UEFI bios. >> >> I just read from https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI: >> * Partitions not seen

Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

2013-09-19 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
19.09.2013 16:43, Andrew Moran wrote: Alas, that did not work. But it does look to be BIOS related. I think this new system has a UEFI bios. I just read from https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI: * Partitions not seen. When using GPT, FreeBSD will create a protective MBR. This MBR has one

Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

2013-09-19 Thread Andrew Moran
rtition on the drives to make it boot up with this BIOS?  :( Thanks. --Andy From: Volodymyr Kostyrko To: Andrew Moran Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:51 AM Subject: Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup 19.0

Re: Rescuing a GPT ZFS boot setup

2013-09-19 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
19.09.2013 09:36, Andrew Moran wrote: 3 years ago I followed https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror for a FreeBSD 8.1 system (which has since been upgraded to 9.1).A couple days ago I had massive hardware failure, and wound up having to put the two drives into an entirely ne