From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 24 15:50:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34EB81065774 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:50:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC948FC0A for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:50:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 40FDB46B09; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:50:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B5B5D8A02E; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:50:27 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:46:25 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110617; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <4EA12EC0.2040907@shurik.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <4EA12EC0.2040907@shurik.kiev.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201110240946.25997.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:50:27 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Subject: Re: cannot boot from HDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:50:29 -0000 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