From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 21:10:13 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 5092A3DE for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:10:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A806622 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XUixn-0001u6-K4 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 23:10:03 +0200 Received: from 74.125.59.185 ([74.125.59.185]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 23:10:03 +0200 Received: from fmayhar by 74.125.59.185 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 23:10:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Frank Mayhar Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable. Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:01:31 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> <541AB164.80707@beastielabs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 74.125.59.185 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.120 Safari/537.36) 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 21:10:13 -0000 Hans Ottevanger 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