From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 17:50:53 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 1DB2EAAE; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x22c.google.com (mail-pd0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22c]) (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 E0F253B1; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:50:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f172.google.com with SMTP id y10so374052pdj.31 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:50:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:from:reply-to:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type :date:message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BevlwR4HGrnNTz7ouTkhm9vX0e7TYsolErqQ3e2OW3w=; b=VdL0fwqmqLnO5ZI1NRLvX6iU6B484xIDRskqoRmrJJCtKjgirw6aYE2icXsfMAnTCl iSDxxhelnrq5ZaYaelF+iy295kxtAW46ESOong0f0CBk2w74aUH5Oe2IzqeO2zL5SxJ0 WnwBQD5AsMU36wtmzIdvo9/CBTezFBA2e6gNZBYOA+ySyqjXkBI5fkgoHs4nsAxevBOI 5GGKJxuNx1NkKyB5tYS5anzRM1MOKubfDhI5Yf5O0T3NIglLJw3wiLBmiVEdBtkFoaUy pzsGN1oCHdsFvWbvWnDWaMuSn+hPrqYQs8rB6TU+7ixnGqzDxvBN5npwcPdwC11Ma5lv jB8A== X-Received: by 10.69.18.74 with SMTP id gk10mr2396920pbd.145.1411149052417; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:50:52 -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 ca4sm2483013pad.0.2014.09.19.10.50.50 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable. Solved. Ish. From: Frank Mayhar Reply-To: fmayhar@gmail.com To: Nathan Whitehorn In-Reply-To: <541C607A.5000407@freebsd.org> References: <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> <1411127384.92654.9.camel@jill.exit.com> <541C607A.5000407@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:51:55 -0700 Message-ID: <1411149115.92654.10.camel@jill.exit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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 17:50:53 -0000 On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 09:57 -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 09/19/14 04:49, Frank Mayhar wrote: > > 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? No, definitely not. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com