FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 Now Available

[Thomas Hoffmann]

All the examples I've seen for updating bootcode assume GPT. If one has MBR
(as I do) and assuming the following basic scheme:

gpart show ada0
=>       63  976773105  ada0  MBR  (466G)
         63  976773105     1  freebsd  [active]  (466G)

gpart show ada0s1
=>        0  976773105  ada0s1  BSD  (466G)
          0  943218736       1  freebsd-zfs  (450G)
  943218736   33554369       2  freebsd-swap  (16G)

would the equivalent bootcode statement be:

gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/zfsboot ada0s1

where the boot code is /boot/zfsboot (rather than /boot/gptzfsboot) and
ada0s1 is the slice on which FreeBSD is installed?

Thanks.


On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:

> +--On 27 décembre 2013 12:26:49 +0100 Zenny <garbytrash at gmail.com> wrote:
> | On 12/27/13, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:
> |> +--On 27 décembre 2013 00:42:36 +0100 Zenny <garbytrash at gmail.com>
> |> wrote:
> |> | Much awaited release, thanks!. However, does the freebsd-update from
> |> | the earlier version bork in case of ZFS on Root? Or is there a safe
> |> | way to upgrade without borking. I had a very bad experience when I
> |> | upgraded from FreeBSD-10B3 to RC1. Thanks!
> |>
> |> I upgraded from 9.2 to 10.0-RC1, 10.0-RC2 and 10.0-RC3 with
> |> freebsd-update using zfs only boxes, never had any problem. The only
> |> thing is, if you run zpool upgrade, do remember to do what it tells you
> |> about updating the bootcode.
> |>
> |
> | In my case, I didn't receive any instructions to update the bootcode
> | and the bug was acknowledged by the developer.
> |
> | However, can you tell me exactly what did you do exactly to update the
> | bootcode? Appreciate it!
>
> Well, when you run :
> # zpool upgrade yourpool
>
> it will not print a lot of things, but it will end with :
>
> If you boot from pool 'yourpool', don't forget to update boot code.
> Assuming you use GPT partitioning and da0 is your boot disk
> the following command will do it:
>
>         gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 da0
>
> All you have to do is adapt it to run your particular setup, replacing da0
> with the correct disk (and running it for each disk where your pool is, in
> my case, it was mfid0 and mfid1.)
>
> --
> Mathieu Arnold
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