From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 16:45:40 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BE2A89D for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:45:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (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 DDD4725C for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:45:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s9MGjdFY002706 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:45:39 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 194359] bsdinstall(8) should set active flag in GPT PMBR if not booting using EFI Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:45:39 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Base System X-Bugzilla-Component: bin X-Bugzilla-Version: 10.1-BETA3 X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Some People X-Bugzilla-Who: hans@beastielabs.net X-Bugzilla-Status: Open X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:45:40 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194359 --- Comment #22 from hans@beastielabs.net --- (In reply to Allan Jude from comment #21) > (In reply to hans from comment #20) > > (In reply to Allan Jude from comment #19) > > > > I just tried the modified boot-only iso on an Intel DP965LT. After an Auto > > (ZFS) install the system now reboots without any problems. Auto (UFS) still > > has the same issue as before ("No bootable device -- insert boot disk and > > press any key"). which of course is as expected. > > > > Thanks for taking the time to test this for me. So it does seem that this is > solving the problem > Definitely, but for ZFS only. A similar change could be done for UFS, or something like in comment #16 could be implemented. > > On my Asus NL4VM-DH installing UFS works, but I still get a message about > > being unable to read the backup GPT header. Rebooting a ZFS installation > > fails (register dump followed by "BTX halted"), but that also happens when > > installing 10-RC2 on ZFS, so I do not think this is relevant to the issue at > > hand. > > Is there anything special about your disk setup that might cause issues with > the very last sector? Some motherboard RAID and other types of things store > their metadata in the last sector, and can clash with GPT, although those > are supposed to make the logical drive 1 sector smaller so that this doesn't > happen. > The disk was in use as single disk for ages in this same system. For now I blame it on the BIOS. > Is that NL4VM-DH using UEFI? No, it is a board from 2006, it has a BIOS. I only included these results to show that something that worked before, i.e. installing UFS without the "does not boot" issue, still works with your change. The NL4VM-DH is too rare to worry about much. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.