From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 04:10:18 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 941D428D for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:10:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x236.google.com (mail-pd0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::236]) (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 6BC813E1 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:10:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f182.google.com with SMTP id w10so532966pde.27 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:10:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:from:reply-to:to:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=fr/2pq/ZU1tn5T9uQczpfl07KEJoCQSsbOVd0Y9J2OM=; b=FJh1uUdTxNZDgCkKj29eiJJ/bNyNEl6CQ6Eso8V7NUIdzWwKGI87vYSHavNSvc89ZZ l5gXrMCec+szR9PqmLXiZeMZ4IjcghPHjLnYmhw0hm8zqUYRQu+mGKjtXaZIsgyRjS+E uZuHFEU3md+o9NPQJqjZgliagaGKtZzOJyS2/KG2XP6KaDI6/Ff07dESAL6x43aFdb5T svZz1/Xz4DqjCcq7K8YYidVFCP/3dEe9rX5l6G57IxjeQ7jjkQOYdqG6p8YSgyM4reiu hxi+PfY0Ckgqou3NLLPghtLY4wOCaHjBQt73eyCuasAHoQLwMGXEIoHIX83TpUS2O5l1 WNoA== X-Received: by 10.70.43.39 with SMTP id t7mr1911884pdl.101.1411013417744; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2001:470:f0fd:0:2e0:81ff:febc:fdcc? ([2001:470:f0fd:0:2e0:81ff:febc:fdcc]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ki1sm18299626pdb.59.2014.09.17.21.10.15 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:10:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable. From: Frank Mayhar Reply-To: frank@exit.com To: freebsd-hackers Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:11:10 -0700 Message-ID: <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:10:18 -0000 Someone please give me a hint of what's going on here. I just got a Dell Precision M6800. It's not doing UEFI, it's all legacy. I pulled the installed drive and dropped in a Seagate hybrid 1T drive, then tried (and tried, and tried, and tried) to install 10-stable on it. I'm using a memstick image, btw. No matter what I try and no matter whether I use bsdinstall or do the gpart stuff by hand, everything goes fine until I try to boot the new install when all I get is "Invalid partition table!" And nothing. Am I going to have to use a legacy MBR and disklabel rather than gpt? Can anyone give me any hints as to what I might look for? I've googled to no avail (just some stuff from 2010 that doesn't seem to apply). I really want to follow the setup outlined at https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot . Hmm, is there a way to use, say, grub to do the bootstrap? How would I go about doing that? And most importantly, would it help? My head is about to explode so I'm turning to you guys. Even a hint would help. Thanks. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com