From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Apr 22 16:55:06 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1472DD4B6D3 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:55:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from holindho@saunalahti.fi) Received: from vs21.mail.saunalahti.fi (vs21.mail.saunalahti.fi [193.64.193.197]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vs21.mail.saunalahti.fi", Issuer "vs21.mail.saunalahti.fi" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C844711A1 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:55:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from holindho@saunalahti.fi) Received: from vs21.mail.saunalahti.fi (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vs21.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E8A42009C for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:46:19 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gw03.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw03.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.111]) by vs21.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D7520094 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:46:19 +0300 (EEST) Received: from scarecrow.local (62-78-248-13.bb.dnainternet.fi [62.78.248.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gw03.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3CA5420113 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:46:17 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <58FB88D3.3000208@saunalahti.fi> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:46:11 +0300 From: Heikki Lindholm User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; fi; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD-11 on i386 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:55:06 -0000 21.4.2017 17.55, James B. Byrne kirjoitti: > I am going to need some detailed guidance (i.e. hand-holding) on > resolving this. The story so far: > > 1. Downloaded FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso and ran sha256sum > which checked out OK. > > 2. Burnt a DVD from said .iso image. > > 3. Installed FreeBSD on an HP-Compaq DC7700S (2 Gb RAM, 500Gb SATA > HDD) using the provided installer program. > > 4. System drops into a boot prompt during subsequent boots from disk. > Can't find /boot/zfsloader > FreeBSD/x86 boot > Default: zroot/ROOT/default:/boot/kernel/kernel > boot: > \ > { repeats all above once } > boot: > > 5. Booting from CD into single user mode works. Gpart shows this: > > => 40 976773088 ada0 GPT (466G) > 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) > 1064 984 - free - (492K) > 2048 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G) > 4196352 972576768 3 freebsd-zfs (464G) > 976773120 8 4 - free - (4.0K) > > > How do I get this system to boot? Should I have gone the UFS root > instead of ZFS? Is that the source of the problem? If so then how to > I restart the installer? Try MBR partitioning first (instead of GPT). Installer DVD should boot when selected from your BIOS boot device selector (F12 during boot or something like that usually).