From owner-freebsd-ia64 Tue Feb 18 18: 7:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911E737B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from caduceus.sc.intel.com (fmr04.intel.com [143.183.121.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D42A43F93 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:07:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adsharma@unix-os.sc.intel.com) Received: from petasus.sc.intel.com (petasus.sc.intel.com [10.3.253.4]) by caduceus.sc.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: outer.mc,v 1.51 2002/09/23 20:43:23 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id h1J26sx18885; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:06:54 GMT Received: from unix-os.sc.intel.com (unix-os.sc.intel.com [143.183.96.244]) by petasus.sc.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: inner.mc,v 1.28 2003/01/13 19:44:39 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id h1J26wI02281; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:06:58 GMT Received: from unix-os.sc.intel.com.intel.com (adsharma-mobl3.sc.intel.com [143.183.130.147]) by unix-os.sc.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id h1J27rr24189; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:07:54 -0800 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD ia64 install problems WAS: install on Dell Precision Work Station 730 References: <03781128C7B74B4DBC27C55859C9D7380B9DDB5D@es06snlnt.sandia.gov> <20030210203522.GA543@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030214024721.GB1573@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030215020654.GA1779@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> From: Arun Sharma Date: 18 Feb 2003 18:07:53 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20030215020654.GA1779@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> Message-ID: Lines: 65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marcel Moolenaar writes: > > > Normally MBR contains a fake EFI > > partition. > > > I went back and restored the MBR to it's original form, so that EFI > > could look into the GPT. Now when I try to boot FreeBSD, it can't > > find "ufs:da0s2a". > > Odd. Is the disklabel in the FreeBSD partition valid? It must be, because I can boot. Here's what things look like after a successful install. # df -k / Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s2a 257838 127690 109522 54% / # gpt -r show /dev/da0 start end size contents 0 0 1 MBR 1 1 1 Pri GPT header 2 33 32 Pri GPT table 34 417665 417632 GPT part c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b 417666 530185 112520 530186 21397248 20867063 GPT part 516e7cb4-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b 21397249 22425344 1028096 GPT part 0657fd6d-a4ab-43c4-84e5-0933c84b4f4f 22425345 22537791 112447 GPT part e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae 22537792 35903039 13365248 GPT part ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 35903040 35916513 13474 35916514 35916545 32 Sec GPT table 35916546 35916546 1 35916547 35916547 1 Sec GPT header # fdisk /dev/da0 ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2235 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2235 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 0 (0000),(unused) start 34, size 417632 (203 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 35; end: cyl 25/ head 254/ sector 39 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 530186, size 20867063 (10188 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 33/ head 0/ sector 42; end: cyl 307/ head 233/ sector 55 The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: Now if I convert the MBR based partition table into a fake MBR (with a single EFI GPT partition), I can't mount root anymore from ufs:da0s2a. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message