The saga continues
William A. Mahaffey III
wam at hiwaay.net
Wed Oct 7 22:26:38 UTC 2015
On 10/06/15 23:48, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>> On 10/06/15 14:33, Polytropon wrote:
>>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 08:25:06 -0453.75, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>> >When I went to reboot, the UEFI 'BIOS' reported
>>>> >'missing MBR record' & hung there.
>>> Do you have "MBR legacy boot" enabled or forced? When using GPT
>>> volumes, one of them has to be a "boot partition". Here you can
>>> find a good illustration of the steps involved:
>>>
>>> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_new_standard_gpt
>>>
>>>
>>> By the way, it's more like either "BIOS"_or_ "UEFI".;-)
>>
>>
>> I have seen that page, & its sibling showing how to setup a RAID1 on
>> 2 disks, *very* helpful, & I think updated recently, they used to
>> have the MBR stuff at the top of the page & GPT farther down. I am
>> following http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/gmirror.html
>> pretty closely in my setup,
>
> Please read the warning at the top of that page. The Handbook shows
> the right way of using gmirror(8). My page on it mirrors GPT
> partitions, which is likely to be a problem if one of the drives ever
> fails. If you absolutely have to use gmirror(8) with GPT, use only
> one partition per drive.
>
Can I partition the drives using '-s MBR', then mirror some of the
partitions & create '-s BSD' slices inside of those mirrors ?
Specifically, I would partition each drive into 4 primary partitions,
/boot, swap, 1 partition to be mirrored & then sliced up as per the
handbook, & 1 partition to be striped & then sliced up ? I would
probably mirror /boot as well, if feasible. It seems this might comport
w/ all of the restrictions & possible meta-data conflicts, but I am
definitely out of my area, hence the questions. TIA & have a good one.
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William A. Mahaffey III
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