From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 23 02:34:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ABCA106568B for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:34:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f183.google.com (mail-pz0-f183.google.com [209.85.222.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE8E8FC1D for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:34:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk13 with SMTP id 13so569583pzk.29 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:34:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=iQhahdLWL1pTG/BtRPn7p/bXixW9XIMg1d+cSmxfxn8=; b=oDtSlBP5zz3AfCnm/ht8VFm4SXuo1C1ybuy2EcL8tzBjHf+8IRgh1DEFG+nHA9524R ztTvkbUsgyGTXOFMId4wdg/9RbAa+nI+8AtI6+Ta8qF4MJM3ZWp2DlZ6kofjdbtRC5NQ 6NKPedWAIectxlHFLYUzGIRFLWhceEU9SnVhc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=uy47Zurznw3b32vh7FPZmwihHEmBz6mm1iOq3MzvtMZkIQDxPWm79vype0W3BtpZSz 4UXZMUvBzI0JR0OzRe1dFZVHFQltPN6U7dgzTi1uzPKz8KoPPlpIAbO6k5ZK5W1i0Qc7 eEzYkduHwq1yhEYmIv8Ztp4hYDgEe+QX/38LU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.115.27.14 with SMTP id e14mr2526239waj.116.1264214088272; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:34:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100122110102.A31702@starfire.mn.org> References: <20100121014759.B3377@starfire.mn.org> <4B58127E.9000106@a1poweruser.com> <20100121065206.B8574@starfire.mn.org> <4B5863D6.2000800@a1poweruser.com> <20100121180336.B17543@starfire.mn.org> <4B59973B.8040203@a1poweruser.com> <20100122063614.A27734@starfire.mn.org> <20100122072756.A28958@starfire.mn.org> <20100122080950.B28958@starfire.mn.org> <20100122110102.A31702@starfire.mn.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:34:48 -0700 Message-ID: From: Tim Judd To: John Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions , Fbsd1 Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" after installation (GOOD NEWS!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:34:49 -0000 > OK - my current best theory is that if the Standard boot manager > is faced with anything other than exactly 1 bootable slice (partition > to it), it defaults to "Invalid partition table." I'll bet anyone > lunch that this is true. Any takers? I've read before: the standard bootloader looks for the first freebsd slice, and runs it. If there's no bsdlabel partition 'a' then it will have trouble booting. I haven't followed this thread in detail. I briefly saw you had 3 slices defined, is by chance the first slice a system disk? > I'll test my theory tonight and let you all know how it turns out. > If this is true, then we should at least post some warnings, if not > actually fix the installation process so that if you choose "Standard," > it helps ensure that you have one and only one bootable slice/partition! > > Whaddaya think? > > Well, better it happen to me than someone from another community who is > trying us out for the first time... > -- > > John Lind > john@starfire.MN.ORG > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >