From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 21:49:46 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B9B3FA8F for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:49:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x230.google.com (mail-pa0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85EB8CAB for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:49:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f48.google.com with SMTP id rd3so1410273pab.21 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:49:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1hkjTWqDVum42wIyiKkCd5PGFs51wjIoQWAg/btA07s=; b=e3cnwMyoyEd751YY+16Q6a8QhaJCgzFmBNs4bFG98koQzgDD8uPQA6Jz4YMzUcl4HR KJN5+RiNFH7qy3AptPieZMxpF6Uep6gOWEu0M6/QfJYjw6S211xwQ7/jmsWX/IbzVItP ZhgjufhAIbNdMR32qkGnaw0kG8XSsXGUn0ontogxBdGULsbcSdYgTGXD/GIj8vG/x1cC l0DJoRh57b1EjiNwmirVY7XCF/3qQn13NG4+bdrGcOQI/eM3MBHcvPB/WxxVNaIUWpmH 8z4J0qHATtqxhMDZifxTFIMHKWlvB9AQ2UflFV0Sa6VoispXbU/1BMxS4ZunqhzI6EbB wsew== X-Received: by 10.67.30.194 with SMTP id kg2mr48054365pad.8.1416952186044; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:49:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (76-218-80-47.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. [76.218.80.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id u5sm2344560pdc.79.2014.11.25.13.49.44 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:49:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5474F978.3020805@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:49:44 -0700 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invalid partition table References: <20141125214044.GI30752@tweddell.de> In-Reply-To: <20141125214044.GI30752@tweddell.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:49:46 -0000 On 11/25/2014 02:40 PM, Bastian wrote: > Hi all, > > I just started to run 10.1-RELEASE on a physical box - a Latitude E6330. > Herein I face some troubles in contrast to the VM installations I had by > now. > > I use zfs on root with GPT a partition table. Installation went fine. > But when booting up, a message is prompted: "Invalid partition table!" > > When I hit enter a slash '/' appears two lines above .. and a second hit > on enter eventually starts the FreeBSD bootloader. This behaviour sound > quite weired to me. > > Could you give me somehints on that? > > > ----- > root@zam709 ~ 1 > 103 # gpart list > Geom name: ada0 > modified: false > state: OK > fwheads: 16 > fwsectors: 63 > last: 500118158 > first: 34 > entries: 128 > scheme: GPT > Providers: > 1. Name: ada0p1 > Mediasize: 524288 (512K) > Sectorsize: 512 > Stripesize: 0 > Stripeoffset: 17408 > Mode: r0w0e0 > rawuuid: 95c86038-71b0-11e4-99be-f01faf034705 > rawtype: 83bd6b9d-7f41-11dc-be0b-001560b84f0f > label: gptboot0 > length: 524288 > offset: 17408 > type: freebsd-boot > index: 1 > end: 1057 > start: 34 > 2. Name: ada0p2 > Mediasize: 2147483648 (2.0G) > Sectorsize: 512 > Stripesize: 0 > Stripeoffset: 541696 > Mode: r1w1e2 > rawuuid: 95cc569e-71b0-11e4-99be-f01faf034705 > rawtype: 516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b > label: boot0 > length: 2147483648 > offset: 541696 > type: freebsd-zfs > index: 2 > end: 4195361 > start: 1058 > 3. Name: ada0p3 > Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G) > Sectorsize: 512 > Stripesize: 0 > Stripeoffset: 2148025344 > Mode: r1w1e1 > rawuuid: 95d29252-71b0-11e4-99be-f01faf034705 > rawtype: 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b > label: swap0 > length: 8589934592 > offset: 2148025344 > type: freebsd-swap > index: 3 > end: 20972577 > start: 4195362 > 4. Name: ada0p4 > Mediasize: 245322537472 (228G) > Sectorsize: 512 > Stripesize: 0 > Stripeoffset: 2148025344 > Mode: r1w1e1 > rawuuid: 95d7730d-71b0-11e4-99be-f01faf034705 > rawtype: 516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b > label: zfs0 > length: 245322537472 > offset: 10737959936 > type: freebsd-zfs > index: 4 > end: 500118158 > start: 20972578 > Consumers: > 1. Name: ada0 > Mediasize: 256060514304 (238G) > Sectorsize: 512 > Mode: r3w3e7 > ----- > > > Many thanks in advance, > Problems reports like this have made me think twice about installing FBSD on a GPT partitioned drive with zfs boot partition. I will stick to plain msdos paritioning, and plain ffs boot partition.