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| author | Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-10-31 03:36:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-10-31 03:36:31 +0000 |
| commit | d8e59012e29dee301a7af5c2a70749637319fafc (patch) | |
| tree | 1d8d4be910c0df83f9c7e531d237bce5032c928b /UPDATING | |
| parent | 76dfd556f1e08d9550b2abc19a79abb6569cd130 (diff) | |
| download | src-test-d8e59012e29dee301a7af5c2a70749637319fafc.tar.gz src-test-d8e59012e29dee301a7af5c2a70749637319fafc.zip | |
Attempt to defuse a land mine before anyone else steps on it: The
freebsd-boot partition is not always the first one.
Following the instructions in UPDATING resulted in my overwriting
the efiboot0 partition on my laptop with ZFS boot blocks, which
had negative effects on the system's bootability.
Reviewed by: allanjude
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27002
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=367195
Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
| -rw-r--r-- | UPDATING | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index caf2887d23b3f..e53bcca9dd065 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -2203,9 +2203,11 @@ COMMON ITEMS: 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive - The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the first - partition (freebsd-boot) of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: - "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0" + The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the + freebsd-boot partition of a GPT partitioned drive ada0: + "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i $N ada0" + The value $N will typically be 1 (if booting from BIOS) or 2 (if + booting from EFI). Non-boot pools do not need these updates. |