From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 11:48:40 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EEE87EF3 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x22e.google.com (mail-pd0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22e]) (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 C3809870 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f174.google.com with SMTP id v10so3480573pde.33 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:48:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:from:reply-to:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date :message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Wkh+WBKwaS0REsEnqQJDMkaxpJd0Iy9Ra507s/r8KOk=; b=elsrGDc2wv1Q42iBsPTagU0f15s6UHHtlPs9wMp4nr/OYBeNJ3T31k8kufZsVZmz4i fulMHE8NgULXmPc9otO3BBzuOKpv+eap9yS7BlGx9uU0aBGJUbBpyzyoh0uKMwpIW63r dBa8QzIsprU9Fu5TvzDJWgqUNVjVL62ecpYJSrH7v30mY+rC0Uqe3Nu6fQrR/iz8X90N 98ebNMgIOmOftYkFfBu81xDv+TA3l3Etn0gyYdxQoDLC00I9g8vaWKfRX6nqDPCXkZjm FkV3HIUjWei+TNj1EVIiUlbCoAdblkzIhoZejoRrjsArQk5G/3PPywKLcoHF5Hep8iA8 BSig== X-Received: by 10.70.38.161 with SMTP id h1mr133593pdk.105.1411127319947; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:48:39 -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 f2sm1689792pdo.29.2014.09.19.04.48.38 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable. Solved. Ish. From: Frank Mayhar Reply-To: fmayhar@gmail.com To: freebsd-hackers In-Reply-To: <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> References: <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:49:44 -0700 Message-ID: <1411127384.92654.9.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: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:48:41 -0000 On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 21:11 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: > 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 . Well, I got it going. In fact, when I got home last night I found that it was sitting there running FreeBSD off the disk. After some experimentation, I found that I had left it in legacy boot mode after strictly following the instructions in the above web page. And I think I had set the MBR to active, although I can't really remember. Even with that hack, however, UEFI just plain didn't work. It didn't find the bootable partition; when I tried to get it to look for it it claimed "Operating System not found" or something along those lines. It may well be looking for Windows only, I guess. Fortunately I can live with legacy boot. I reinstalled that way, following a slightly-modified version of the ZFS-root instructions above, and I'm installing ports as I write this. So, notwithstanding the lack of UEFI support, success! -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com