On 14.06.2012 17:08, Olivier Smedts wrote: > 2012/6/14 Andrey V. Elsukov <[email protected]>: >> Also, our PMBR image doesn't contain any partition entries and >> writing it to the disk with dd(1) makes the system unbootable. >> What you think if we will add one partition entry to the PMBR image? >> I modified your patch (the last hunk added) and it is attached. > > Isn't it gpart(8)'s job to write the proper boot code from the pmbr > image without damaging the partition table ? > > ie. "gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada0" instead of using dd.
gpart(8) works only when GPT's geom exists, when PMBR is damaged GEOM_PART_GPT can't detect GPT and thus you can't use it. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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