From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 13:46:39 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1B44CF8; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x22a.google.com (mail-wg0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 32FCDB9F; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id a1so1519073wgh.1 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 06:46:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=dUHZW6u5P42m26QROqHJtcYcfV1ChONfUly2o/A9xNE=; b=G2hSj53NHDzvbi1B+q8p79rklANfRu0cZ4sagBGbkamB3IbAcKwK9WWCl2rSv1rBgr k1BZbzMP/8p6LKOZrcp07T0FqOZJJUpbHxm07GLjU+LLVJF1e9KXHPO4hdaBlKfh2N2o E0apul3Xu1OWiU5VU/DZ/p22RwuaBkLSy2tyoMdPPmQxNQg7NMf+5sB7L2ogrIXHodPR 1AFi43zJwI8yrW+Jh+coqE+Rrd0RTGx7nSqYm/P6flXbqJgOV0db6rb1eVk0l8X1HAcW fHxnVrf25WmvF7dYmNDT6DLsvZGbBCrWUaS1ppMuGsh0qCejm3LgQbzNnT8+TbR6famY q5dg== X-Received: by 10.194.191.135 with SMTP id gy7mr13799877wjc.39.1411307197378; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 06:46:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.179.10 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 06:46:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <541DACA2.3000900@freebsd.org> References: <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> <541AB164.80707@beastielabs.net> <1411078978.90616.21.camel@jill.exit.com> <541DACA2.3000900@freebsd.org> From: Frank Mayhar Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 06:46:17 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable. To: Nathan Whitehorn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: freebsd-hackers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:46:39 -0000 On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Nathan Whitehorn 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