[PC-BSD Testing] Failure to recognize FreeBSD slice
Miki Janosi
mjanosi at uakron.edu
Wed Nov 30 06:43:11 PST 2011
RC2 installed without any error on my MacBookPro 7,1!
Although the FreeBSD slice is not seen via holding down
the options key or in rEFIt, although both fdisk and gpt
see it. As you can see making slice 3 bootable from
fdisk failed to help:
# fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 38913/255/63 [625142448 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 0 0 2 - 1023 255 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 255 63 - 1023 255 63 [ 409640 - 544921856] HFS+
*3: A5 1023 255 63 - 1023 255 63 [ 545595392 - 79546368] FreeBSD
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
# gpt -r show disk0
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 544921856 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
545331496 263896
545595392 79546368 3 GPT part - 516E7CB4-6ECF-11D6-8FF8-00022D09712B
625141760 655
625142415 32 Sec GPT table
625142447 1 Sec GPT header
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