On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Robert Huff <roberth...@rcn.com> wrote: > On 1/3/2013 11:40 AM, Warren Block wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Robert Huff wrote: >> >>> (While this may not be a strictly CURRENT issue, I asked on >>> questions@, but have not found a solution.) >>> >>> Situation: >>> One of my boxes failed, and for various reasons it became easier >>> to just scrub and rebuild it. Like its predecessor it will run CURRENT >>> 1) Using BSDinstall, I flushed then created the first disk: >>> >>> ada2p1 freebsd-boot 128k >>> ada2p2 freebsd-swap 4g >>> ada2p3 freebsd-ufs 25g >>> >>> 5) On rebooting, the loader(??) claims to not be able to find a >>> bootable partition - i.e. I get a screen that ends in "mountroot > ". >>> Providing the presumptive value by hand returns "error 19". >> >> >> It really does not sound like a GPT problem, because 9.0 booted. > > > I don't (at the moment) think it's GPT caused; but I do think it may > be GPT related. > > > >> The >> -current kernel can't find/detect the device. Scrolling back in the >> console buffer might find a problem. buildworld/kernel/installworld do >> not affect the disk partitioning, but can change the code that looks for >> those partitions. > > > Exactly. I'm looking for help figuring out how the hand-off from > loader to kernel got broken and what I have to do to fix it. > One possibility: I believe I labeled each of the partitions during > the gpt creation process. Can I use those labels to (hopefully) by-pass > this issue?
Yes! This is the current recommended way of doing it. > cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/gpt/swap none swap sw 0 0 /dev/gpt/root / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/gpt/tmp /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/gpt/usr /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/gpt/var /var ufs rw 2 2 -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
