Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 06:46:17 -0700 From: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable. Message-ID: <CADME5u6QOmkspaiP4r90c7opMJN9cYvM_DZHNqQhyKbtYx2mCw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <541DACA2.3000900@freebsd.org> References: <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> <541AB164.80707@beastielabs.net> <loom.20140918T225950-776@post.gmane.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1409190001590.873@laptop> <1411078978.90616.21.camel@jill.exit.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1409201410350.1085@laptop> <541DACA2.3000900@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > Could you describe the exact problem here so that we can fix the > installer? If this is the mark one partition active thing, I'm not sure we > can change that, since there are also systems *that* breaks. > I'm not sure I can describe the *exact* problem, since I don't completely understand it. What I can say that if I put the laptop into legacy-boot mode and mark the partition active, it boots. If I put it into UEFI boot mode and install, even if I install the pmbr and mark it active, the BIOS doesn't find it. This is a bit different message from the earlier one I quoted, it's a set of messages clearly from the BIOS claiming that it can't find a boot partition; I can reproduce it and quote it exactly if it would help. It also offers ways to go to Setup, retry the boot or run diagnostics. Marking the partition inactive doesn't help, in fact I couldn't figure out any way to make it detect the partition. In the BIOS, where you choose UEFI, it has a search function. In legacy mode it finds all the possible boot devices, but in UEFI it claims, IIRC, that it can't find an operating system and produces no list of potential boot devices. This is on a Dell Precision M6800, as I said before. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask. -- Frank Mayhar fmayhar@gmail.com
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