From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sun Aug 20 16:19:02 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCB5DDD4BB for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:19:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90EA66A30D for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:19:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 8D01ADDD4BA; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:19:02 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C671DDD4B9 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:19:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) Received: from nm17.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm17.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.114.40]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4637B6A30C for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:19:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scratch65535@att.net) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=att.net; s=s1024; t=1503245714; bh=C8hdKDRwWaJpwbsSb+UGYvFgdmrV7hJKOP3TtmFwUGI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:References:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=BqYgL5Ca903jZ3ioy9D9o7clPCEjAbdnP+5U5eHLS7P0nQgkrx/HVwltBh9HYmT8bNZ9sSqNvnF76A3kuQPBmAIVbQK2CnH7+4Tc23xEOoWjjHSL2UbWIlYs4hN040HbNVHIgNGVhpaDNx5dHyn2PUsvIGXHYym3/cMlWK2tyRA= Received: from [66.196.81.161] by nm17.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Aug 2017 16:15:14 -0000 Received: from [98.139.244.51] by tm7.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Aug 2017 16:15:14 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp113.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Aug 2017 16:15:14 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 316368.79086.bm@smtp113.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: CfrswncVM1mvneBNAS7DPteaWw.h.DWEhjfDlJrpYTuFcZM 08sTQMWwrrUEf.7WJpdolXkquW3acVIz0g5seg4QACLnTu4_VGYLNm2KICgR uMEjnE4Ar97JU_kANw11JEqFfbfh79rDxwubSse51G9J.RbmhPI9FmALU0WJ t0ESJ1GWZclSZNE9zinkvdkSShD.YNpnOf_Mw5HYbx89lqB.aI3gDDYdtLVi mcsmpI2BnyC6UwBorIdxvymhPKF6HtYGvNPTDUdKM.ZgalpgTYYdWfq_62UB uIjtcbRpT0dl896nQAgbU89_VHGizXT8hwrZ5r4D4qcFHUEFOx_QPUBLfSFt x.tvJORx8Lli1KTFkhQ65sTxsK2phO87BwIV9QnDIlj15HIbuTHIWDBegUCn psNfQFWkPbLI4qi._oulwgJBT8fWGL7ziAN6idbHPhR4tdpLpbZHet19Gzk2 xDPF.CkslgY36gjAbtZbiACoIEBAPFL3z_gbjhywcSkBDD_kpkGeNn53BkvX taeWF1A-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: pPvqnOaswBBbYZLVYFzvU7GaowLcbNioPp.aF8KvOjZk From: To: Manish Jain Cc: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: I went to install 11.1 yesterday Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:15:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:19:02 -0000 You're right, it was half my mistake. This motherboard's bios has a switch for EFI, legacy, and both. The factory setting was both, and, after defaulting to EFI, the installer evidently didn't know how to back up and try again when it found an MBR partition. I'll report the bug. I may have to have another go at Ubuntu -- perhaps it didn't know how to back up either. Thanks for the tipoff! [Default] On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:05:29 +0000, Manish Jain wrote: > > >On 08/20/17 17:20, scratch65535@att.net wrote: >> discovered that, like Linux (or at >> least Ubuntu) 11 doesn't support MBR > > >Hi, > >There must be some misunderstanding here. Both Linux as well as FreeBSD >11 fully support MBR. I have installed 11 as well as 12-current using MBR. > >I do not know what leads you to that conclusion. If you could tell >precisely what you tried, perhaps someone will point out the actual >problem for your system. > >I have a cheat-sheet for troubleshooting FreeBSD installation when >things are not going right : > >1) Disable UEFI in the BIOS and force your disks to be presented as >Legacy devices > >2) Boot from optical media installer, not USB > >3) If using UFS, prefer MBR partitioning. For ZFS, be prepared to devote >a whole disk partitioned GPT. > >Could you please fill in some details after trying my suggestions above ? > >Regards >Manish Jain