ZFS Need helps or advices about vermaden post freebsd/windows dual boot

[xedos832]

I read a very interesting post by Vermaden where there a guide to follow that help to create a freebsd system attached like Virtual disk and booted dual boot windows/freebsd.

I followed all post until need to add new partition zfs with free space inside ada0, I typed :

gpart add -t freebsd-zfs ada0

But the response is: invalid argument,
Idk why? Until this points all gone fine, my notebook is not with windows 10 is an old one with windows 7 and partition scheme was MBR and not GPT but I read it, shouldn't be a problem...

 

[drhowarddrfine]

Do this @vermaden and you will probably hear from him.

 

[vmisev]

gpart add - t freebsd-zfs ada0

But the response is: invalid argument,

You have there extra (unneeded) space between - and t, it should be
gpart add -t
not
gpart add - t

 

[xedos832]

You have there extra (unneeded) space between - and t, it should be
gpart add -t
not
gpart add - t

Sorry I typed wrong here but well on console

 

[JordanG]

I read a very interesting post by Vermaden where there a guide to follow that help to create a freebsd system attached like Virtual disk and booted dual boot windows/freebsd.

Please provide a link to the guide you were following.

gpart add -t freebsd-zfs ada0

But the response is: invalid argument,
Idk why? Until this points all gone fine, my notebook is not with windows 10 is an old one with windows 7 and partition scheme was MBR and not GPT but I read it, shouldn't be a problem...

The command gives you an error because freebsd-zfs is a valid partition type for GPT but not for MBR.

 

[vmisev]

The command gives you an error because freebsd-zfs is a valid partition type for GPT but not for MBR.

Oh, I missed MBR part I just checked article “FreeBSD Alongside Windows”
And there in the comments vermaden clearly stated (yesterday) in response to the same question by xedos832:
”This guide works with GPT partition scheme – that is the default Windows installation way for both Windows 10 and 11 – not sure about Windows 7 and 8.x – I do not know how to make that work on MBR scheme.” /q

 

[scottro]

Is this the post?

FreeBSD Alongside Windows

As much as I like FreeBSD UNIX I can not change the fact that the most common computer combination on a planet is a PC with Windows system on it. The most secure way to try another operating system…

vermaden.wordpress.com

 

[vmisev]

Is this the post?

Yup, please see my post right above yours

 

[xedos832]

Is this the post?

FreeBSD Alongside Windows

As much as I like FreeBSD UNIX I can not change the fact that the most common computer combination on a planet is a PC with Windows system on it. The most secure way to try another operating system…

vermaden.wordpress.com

Yup this was the post and thanks to replay to all

 

[xedos832]

I followed a forum post here ,about create zfs file system under a MBR partition scheme and I create a 70Gb freebsd partition and inside a slice of BSD partition with 40 Gb freebsd-zfs and 8Gb freebsd-swap inside, that I growed up later after I tested freebsd 14.3, now I have :

pc-hp@freebsd:~ $ gpart show -p ada0
=> 63 488397105 ada0 MBR (233G)
63 1985 - free - (993K)
2048 319498240 ada0s1 ntfs (152G)
319500288 146800640 ada0s3 freebsd [active] (70G)
466300928 22094192 ada0s2 ntfs (11G)
488395120 2048 - free - (1.0M)

pc-hp@freebsd:~ $ gpart show -p ada0s3
=> 0 146800640 ada0s3 BSD (70G)
0 127926272 ada0s3a freebsd-zfs (61G)
127926272 16777216 ada0s3b freebsd-swap (8.0G)
144703488 2097152 - free - (1.0G)

Dual boot wasn't possible ,so i just can boot freebsd , but never mind , anyway i have a backup of my data done,and trough a smart little app i could create also a VHDx disk of my drive using windows 7 x32 so if I have regret about some old windows features or memories i will simply attach it to a VM.

take awhile for me to do all this things so i didn't write before.
i connected my hp with tethering USB with my phone, i tried to configure WiFi but with WiFi tethering WPA2-PSK is quite hard 'cos a software bug i thought with Broadcom 4312:

pc-hp@freebsd:~ $ sudo pciconf -lv | grep -B3 network
bwn_pci0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x14e4 device=0x4315 subvendor=0x103c subdevice=0x137d
vendor = 'Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries'
device = 'BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY'
class = network
re0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x10ec device=0x8168 subvendor=0x103c subdevice=0x3629
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
class = network

well I followed another post here by Adam227 and after awhile I changed wifi router tethering to open network and seems it works and can connect with my laptop:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up list scan

give me list of all networks available,when before I had configured /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ,wasn't possible, i appreciated to use poudriere to built bwn-firmware-kmod ,(first time to me) and all passages gone fine, but it didn't solve issue about WPA2-personal, So I could connect only with open network..something about to think by some volunteers here..I will buy an external device plugged with USB on the future of course...