There are a lot of example in gpart(8) man page. You should use it I think you should do something like
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada0 gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0 (The second assume that you have a freebsd-boot as first index in ada0) Cheers, 2013/2/22 uki <uka...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > I want to install freebsd9 (stable) on zfs root, unfortunately my bios > is unable to recognize GPT discs. > I'm using MBR disc, with BSD slice (on mbr index 4) containing > freebsd-zfs filesystem. > > I've no idea how to make it bootable, I've tried using: > > zpool export sys > dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ada0s4 count=1 > dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ada0s4a skip=1 seek=1024 > zpool import sys > > > When I select F4 (slice with zfs) whilst booting the computer just turns > off. > How do I make it boot? Do I need freebsd-boot slice? > > I have set bootfs property on pool, and added vfs.root.mountfrom to > loader.conf. > > > Cheers, > Ćukasz Gruner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Demelier David _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"