From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 16:57:39 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 A9C35B52 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from d.mail.sonic.net (d.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75660DBC for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aurora.physics.berkeley.edu (aurora.Physics.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.117.67]) (authenticated bits=0) by d.mail.sonic.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s8JGvUBL027280 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:57:31 -0700 Message-ID: <541C607A.5000407@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:57:30 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable. Solved. Ish. References: <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> <1411127384.92654.9.camel@jill.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <1411127384.92654.9.camel@jill.exit.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sonic-CAuth: UmFuZG9tSVYFI9NXRpFWnI3AAn4MM7Jhtdz6aZYobMOhor2/wR7ug2EFLUmSlLUntsOHVlVtCcT3Gl+XRWD0rpg/F9qjQ0Jqygc3LqAVBnQ= X-Sonic-ID: C;urQeCx5A5BGflwDu5Qupew== M;qAtSCx5A5BGflwDu5Qupew== X-Spam-Flag: No X-Sonic-Spam-Details: 0.0/5.0 by cerberusd 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 16:57:39 -0000 On 09/19/14 04:49, Frank Mayhar wrote: > 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! Did you have secure boot enabled? -Nathan