Hello,
I recently installed a 9.1-RC2 system using gmirror with MBR, and swap in first
bsdlabel.
orsbackup# gpart show
=> 63 3907029104 mirror/gm0 MBR (1.8T)
63 63 - free - (31k)
126 3907028979 1 freebsd [active] (1.8T)
3907029105 62 - free - (31k)
=> 0 3907028979 mirror/gm0s1 BSD (1.8T)
0 2 - free - (1.0k)
2 16777216 1 freebsd-swap (8.0G)
16777218 3890251760 2 freebsd-ufs (1.8T)
3907028978 1 - free - (512B)
The drive was setup with the following commands:
orsbackup# gpart create -s MBR mirror/gm0
mirror/gm0 created
orsbackup# gpart add -t freebsd -a 4k mirror/gm0
# ignored "mirror/gm0s1 added, but partition is not aligned on 4096 bytes"
# create the bsdlabel partitions in slice 1 (s1)
orsbackup# gpart create -s BSD mirror/gm0s1
orsbackup# gpart add -t freebsd-swap -a 4k -s 8g mirror/gm0s1
orsbackup# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4k mirror/gm0s1
# put bootcode on the MBR and mark the first slice active
orsbackup# gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr mirror/gm0
orsbackup# gpart set -a active -i 1 mirror/gm0
# put bootcode on the bsdlabel
orsbackup# gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot mirror/gm0s1
The system rebooted several times without issue. This system is a testbed for
9.1 and is not yet deployed as a production server.
I thought I'd update to 9.1-RC3, so I ran:
freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3
freebsd-update install
reboot
The system won't boot and complains about:
"Not UFS" "No ada0" "No boot"
Before I charge ahead with reissuing the gpart bootcode commands I thought I'd:
a) make others aware there may be issues in freebsd-update with the 9.1 release
candidates
b) ask about the best way to resolve this bootloader issue.
Thanks you for any pointers in resolving this bootloader issue!
johnea
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