Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:11:10 -0700 From: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable. Message-ID: <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com>
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Someone please give me a hint of what's going on here. I just got a Dell Precision M6800. It's not doing UEFI, it's all legacy. I pulled the installed drive and dropped in a Seagate hybrid 1T drive, then tried (and tried, and tried, and tried) to install 10-stable on it. I'm using a memstick image, btw. No matter what I try and no matter whether I use bsdinstall or do the gpart stuff by hand, everything goes fine until I try to boot the new install when all I get is "Invalid partition table!" And nothing. Am I going to have to use a legacy MBR and disklabel rather than gpt? Can anyone give me any hints as to what I might look for? I've googled to no avail (just some stuff from 2010 that doesn't seem to apply). I really want to follow the setup outlined at https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot . Hmm, is there a way to use, say, grub to do the bootstrap? How would I go about doing that? And most importantly, would it help? My head is about to explode so I'm turning to you guys. Even a hint would help. Thanks. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com
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