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Date:      Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:01:31 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable.
Message-ID:  <loom.20140918T225950-776@post.gmane.org>
References:  <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> <541AB164.80707@beastielabs.net>

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Hans Ottevanger <hans <at> beastielabs.net> writes:
> In my situation I can get the installation working by booting single 
> user from an older FreeBSD install CD (9.2R in my case) and reinstall 
> the MBR as follows:
> 
> /sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada0
> 
> Probably gpart changed the way it installs the MBR, but I think it is 
> very board (or maybe BIOS) specific: other systems do not have the issue.
> 
> Please let me know if this "trick" helps for you.

I did install the pmbr during the initial setup, as well as the bootstrap 
itself.  I do plan to try the "set active partition" trick suggested 
elsewhere.
-- 
Frank Mayhar
fmayhar@gmail.com




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