Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:46:25 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot boot from HDD Message-ID: <201110240946.25997.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4EA12EC0.2040907@shurik.kiev.ua> References: <4EA12EC0.2040907@shurik.kiev.ua>
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On Friday, October 21, 2011 4:35:12 am Alexandr wrote: > Hello! > > A few weeks ago I have migrated to a new laptop Lenovo B570 and I cannot > boot from my HDD. At the start of the boot process HDD led blinks some > times and boot continues from Network PXE. Bootloader from 8-RELEASE, > 9-STABLE, and 10-CURRENT connot solve this issue. > I am using a GPT scheme on my laptop: > > lenovo-b570# gpart show > => 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (465G) > 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) > 162 976772973 2 freebsd-zfs (465G) > > Now to boot my system I am using boottable usb-flash with Grub2 > installed. Choosing boot from HDD mbr starts boot my system. > I discussed this problem in our local mailing list, but no success. > The only way I see to resolve my problem at this time is to use such scheme: > > bios-boot (with Grub2) > freebsd-boot > freebsd-zfs Hmm, sounds like your BIOS doesn't like the PMBR and doesn't try to boot from it as a result. Have you tried updating your BIOS? From a quick search it seems even Windows can't boot from GPT on this box, but that a BIOS update might fix that. -- John Baldwin
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