From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sun Aug 20 14:30:33 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@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 35314DD6857 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:30:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150AB66897 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:30:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 11740DD6856; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@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 111B9DD6855 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:30:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: from nm7-vm10.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm7-vm10.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.114.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BEFE766891 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:30:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=att.net; s=s1024; t=1503239259; bh=/C/CDniKobV2j0JAoOdgNX1wuWmm94EVhlBs4pZ95Bk=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:References:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=p/M6WIo0GDt+/pTUlmR6DQsEtwIB7pxS5rIxm3ZaAKMO+nmNrYT+ze21ayhuGP8QxqzVxz5b+naHsvNaHGkeEJPppFDSAMQJrrEfzPDIdtEXwItf7lGZGvVDz5R7dSeU63qMNpHFdOhjF8dSAlmMkketLd211nXzvnaR5rolfDg= Received: from [66.196.81.155] by nm7.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Aug 2017 14:27:39 -0000 Received: from [98.139.244.51] by tm1.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Aug 2017 14:27:39 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp113.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Aug 2017 14:27:39 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 49965.36795.bm@smtp113.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: YNO0h4oVM1kBoxFljWXofngIzGC0Mk2s549e0JZrHcErGDs jmt2czG2cmxHCwTaSTUh6liTHFkbb5YO23Omv8NnG1lhDe3lgOw35KojqKA6 xvDcujDmCW_hBwRTdm_L0eDNXZe4IYYyq3z0xpvzWn1B.Ebg2uEaFd6boK91 hX0oWN8ySlb00LUd5bXprVGf5iQjiEiXL58A4x026xno0uBTbU8ZROdnpd4r cvPy2wDUe.OBlwpfNkq50wpJ8NKfet_jfC4w1cpybiWOmDTsCSsUKIoLBLJX j3pSO58SYIKNO0hu4kRFtS482gF95SvinWy4_e7Cu5TfQWbeGI5b5uvf69IE a3Lrxe1sR4JV8ufU9uNi.jB0E88sd9DFoHYoizii4OUKujHSxINrp3C_c_db GoxUoTFWFkhVndxBoF0mXgsb_DLjQFipr8hdYZG9E..CVeghh2CCr4APBuU_ .ge91OYpd4FQsZfeTP_JWQydbiOgGC.9FZr0dBIroHi3L8EbNRxryxMz4gjn sfnumIA-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: pPvqnOaswBBbYZLVYFzvU7GaowLcbNioPp.aF8KvOjZk From: To: Manish Jain Cc: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: I went to install 11.1 yesterday Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 10:27:39 -0400 Message-ID: <6b6jpchbfp3u3pfqsa034on2mqjc2s2im2@4ax.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:30:33 -0000 [Default] On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:05:29 +0000, Manish Jain wrote: > > >On 08/20/17 17:20, scratch65535@att.net wrote: >> discovered that, like Linux (or at >> least Ubuntu) 11 doesn't support MBR > > >Hi, > >There must be some misunderstanding here. Both Linux as well as FreeBSD >11 fully support MBR. I have installed 11 as well as 12-current using MBR. > >I do not know what leads you to that conclusion. If you could tell >precisely what you tried, perhaps someone will point out the actual >problem for your system. That's quite interesting! What led me to believe it is that, after installing windows, which required creating and formatting an MBR partition, I tried to install 11.1 on the rest of the disc. The first choice I was given was whole disc or partition. I chose partition, of course. Whereupon it told me that MBR isn't supported, and that I could either permit it to consume the whole disc (for GPT, though it didn't actually say that), or back up and choose differently. Functionally, the only choices on offer were whole disc or quit. I quit. > >I have a cheat-sheet for troubleshooting FreeBSD installation when >things are not going right : > >1) Disable UEFI in the BIOS and force your disks to be presented as >Legacy devices > >2) Boot from optical media installer, not USB > >3) If using UFS, prefer MBR partitioning. For ZFS, be prepared to devote >a whole disk partitioned GPT. > >Could you please fill in some details after trying my suggestions above ? > >Regards >Manish Jain >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"