Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:32:25 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Chris <bsd-lists@BSDforge.com> Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CURRENT October images do not create a bootable install Message-ID: <20191108103225.4333bc3b@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <7546b6d4e9d31e23b00dc19a2d2d1ac5@udns.ultimatedns.net> References: <7AE5B109-5458-4246-B561-C10C382DE1D7@me.com> <7546b6d4e9d31e23b00dc19a2d2d1ac5@udns.ultimatedns.net>
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On Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:41:01 -0800 Chris <bsd-lists@BSDforge.com> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 17:28:16 +0200 Toomas Soome tsoome@me.com said > > > > On 7. Nov 2019, at 17:23, Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 09:49:52 +0100 gljennjohn@gmail.com said > > >> I chose GPT. > > > > > Maybe whoever wrote the EFI/BIOS code in your machine went all-in on > > > "Legacy", and it only handles MBR disks (or disks < 2.2TB)? > > > After all, it seems like "not booting" would be a standards-compliant > > > way for a classic BIOS to handle a GPT disk. > > > > > > if your system is not booting from GPT disk, it means it is not standards > > compliant. > Interesting. So then RELENG-12 is not "Standards" compliant. While 13-CURRE > NT is? > IOW I attempted in early October to install each of the (13-CURRENT) instal > l > images available. Both on a 500Gb disk, and a 1Tb disk. All w/o success. In > desperation, I settled for the then (most recent) RELENG-12. 12 installed > as all previous FreeBSD installs have done successfully. > So something in (recent) 13' boot layout has changed. I can boot Legacy/UEF > I/GPT > on 12. But cannot boot at all in recent 13. > I noticed that your 12 disk has Stripesize: 0 on all partitions but 13 has Stripesize: 4096 on all partitions. My bootable 13 disk has Stripesize: 0 on all partitions. Whether that is the cause of your problem I can't say. [snip gpart output] -- Gary Jennejohn
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