From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Sep 2 12:11:25 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C4FDC54C for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2019 12:11:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass Class 2 CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46MTT838LVz4dx6 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2019 12:11:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([178.12.113.112]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue010 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1Mw99Y-1iLSa13OIW-00s4oN; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 14:11:17 +0200 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 14:11:16 +0200 From: Polytropon To: "Thomas D. 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Dean wrote: > On 9/2/19 4:39 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Sep 2019 19:47:33 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > >> I have 5 disk drives, with two (same) OS's. Actually, two drives have > >> Windows 7 and its secondary plex. From an earlier post: > >> > >> sata6g_1 HD0 SSD ubuntu 18.04 > >> sata6g_2 HD1 WD5000 Ubuntu 18.04 > >> sata3g_3 HD2 WD5000 windows 7 - not used > >> sata3g_4 HD3 WD5000 backup > >> sata3g_5 HD4 WD5000 windows 7 secondary plex- not used > >> sata3g_6 DVD DRW-24B3LT > >> sata6g_E1 (empty) > >> sata6g_E2 (empty) > >> > >> I plan to keep the SSD Ubuntu install until I can get FreeBSD up and > >> running the way I want. > >> > >> So, for now, I want to install FreeBSD on sata3g_5 HD4. > >> > >> My motherboard, ASUS P9X79 PRO has support for UEFI boot. > >> > >> Is it worth the effort to change everything to GPT, or, should I just > >> use GPT on the FreeBSD disk? I am leaning toward the later, but, ... > >> > >> I think the future has a SSD for FreeBSD. > > > > Don't confuse UEFI and GPT. :-) > > > > YOu can use both GPT and MBR (not on the same disk, of course, > > but on different disks). Choosing MBR is suggested today only > > for the few cases where it's absolutely needed. Use GPT if you > > can. > > > > You cannot "convert" between the two except via "backup, re-init, > > restore", which probably is not what you have in mind. > > > > But as it is about a new installation of FreeBSD into a multi-OS > > setting, I'd suggest to leave everything untouched, install > > FreeBSD on its disk using GPT partitioning, and add a "chain loader" > > entry to GRUB configuration that boots FreeBSD. GRUB can understand > > both MBR and GPT, so it doesn't matter. > > > > Something, possibly BSDinstall or, maybe something unknown made the 2 > Windows 7 disks unbootable. Great, now I can use them for something > other than adding weight to the box. Maybe there is just some damage to the bootcode of each "Windows". Suggestion: Unplug all disks except one of those (one at each time), boot with a "Windows" installation / repair DVD, restore the boot sector - should boot fine again. However, it sounds totally wrong that a FreeBSD installer even _touches_ disks that are not subject to the FreeBSD installation. I can image that adding boot code (single-boot or boot manager) to the 1st disk of a setup is possible, but what you're describing sounds just wrong. Not entirely impossible, but ... Also boot into Linux and make sure the GRUB configuration is correct. > I changed HD2, sdc to GPT with gparted. I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it. > I booted sda and used update-grub2. Seemed to go OK, but I could not > get grub to boot sdc. The boot menu listed sdc, but when selected igrub > actually booted sda. Looking at boot/grub/grub.cfg, I see the menuentry > for sdc to have the same values as sda. > > grub bug?? Something went wrong when update-grub2 altered the configuration, I'd guess. You can manually change the GRUB configuration as needed. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...