On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:14:20PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article <20130512205837.ga69...@icarus.home.lan>, j...@koitsu.org writes: > > >You may also need to set kern.geom.debugflags=0x10 to inhibit GEOM's > >"safety measure" / to permit writing to LBA 0; see GEOM(4) and search > >for the word "foot". > > If you have set up your partitioning properly (read: following the > clearly recommended best practice on the wiki), there should never, > ever be any reason to do this. (That is why it's called a DEBUG > flag.) ...
I'm in full agreement with you, but the irony is that you refer to "the wiki", which I have intentionally ignored for years now because it's always wrong/always out of date/under scrutiny/do-not-care-to-debate. Case in point: https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot 5. Install the Protected MBR (pmbr) and gptzfsboot loader Fixit# gpart bootcode -b /mnt2/boot/pmbr -p /mnt2/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0 This may fail with an "operation not permitted" error message, since the kernel likes to protect critical parts of the disk. If this happens for you, run: Fixit# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10 https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror 5. Install the Protected MBR (pmbr) and gptzfsboot loader to both drives Fixit# gpart bootcode -b /mnt2/boot/pmbr -p /mnt2/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0 Fixit# gpart bootcode -b /mnt2/boot/pmbr -p /mnt2/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad1 This may fail with an "operation not permitted" error message, since the kernel likes to protect critical parts of the disk. If this happens for you, run: Fixit# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10 https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition 10. Install ZFS boot ... Install the boot1 stage: Fixit# dd if=/mnt2/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ad0s3 count=1 This may fail with an "operation not permitted" error message, since the kernel likes to protect critical parts of the disk. If this happens for you, run: Fixit# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10 > The necessary and sufficient invocation is: > > # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsloader -i 1 [a]daX > > I have no idea how this works with MBR partitioning, but I would make > one suggestion in that regard: DON'T. Whatever makes you think you > want to do that, think harder and find another way. I believe for MBR you'd need to refer to the slice, not the disk, i.e. ada0s1 (NOT THE PARTITION ada0s1a). I found this out long ago when doing the classic "bsdlabel -B ada0" method of updating boot blocks only to find it bitch/complain and insist I use the slice. I haven't dared touch gpart for bootblock updates on any FreeBSD system I have access to, simply because the gpart syntax is long and could really screw you over if you make a typo. Plus, remembering which files to refer to in /boot is always spotty. "Uh, do I use -b here or -p... Uh, do I use /boot/mbr or /boot/pmbr... err...". /boot is such a mess these days. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org | | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ | | Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ 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"
