Re: setting currdev correctly after repartitioning
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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 16:06:24 UTC
On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 09:46:34AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >How do you know disk0 in the boot loader is da5 in FreeBSD? Or that it's >even the disk you think it is? P2 is GPT partitioning, not MBR so you are >chasing shadows here, i think. When it's in the rpi4 it'll be da0 as it's a usb3-connected ssd and it's the boot disk (and the only disk) on that system. When this is plugged into my freebsd *desktop* it's detected as da5. > >=> 63 1953525105 da5 MBR (932G) >> 63 1 - free - (512B) >> 64 524288 1 fat32lba [active] (256M) >> 524352 1952448512 2 freebsd (931G) >> 1952972864 552304 - free - (270M) >> >> >> # gpart show da5s2 >> >> => 0 1952448512 da5s2 BSD (931G) >> 0 16777216 1 freebsd-swap (8.0G) >> 16777216 16777216 2 freebsd-swap (8.0G) >> 33554432 16777216 4 freebsd-swap (8.0G) >> 50331648 16777216 5 freebsd-swap (8.0G) >> 67108864 1885339648 6 freebsd-ufs (899G) > > >Whatever disk this is, it GPT partitioned, may have a kernel but not the >lua support files. It might even not have a recognized filesystem on it, >but we think the ESP was on this disk Why does it say MBR ? --