Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 11:02:52 -0700 From: "James E. Pace" <james@pacehouse.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install Message-ID: <CAN1es4%2Be9Q4v6etYZiRjyTmFe5KQLPA2F81RSXOLjEC%2BVKfeyA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I bought an HP Pavilion p7-1597c [1] system last week. It is Intel Core i5-3330, with a Seagate 1.5 TB SATA drive and 12 GB of memory, shipped with Windows 8. I have disabled Secure Boot and enabled Legacy device booting. I am able to complete the install of FreeBSD 9.1/amd64 from the CD without any problems. However, when I attempt to boot, it doesn't. Originally I was trying to dual boot with Win 8, but eventually I rendered Win8 unbootable. So, now I have given FreeBSD the whole disk. I have done the standard install. I found instructions to have the install use MBR (instead of GPT), but that also doesn't work. After an install, I get to the boot0 (the F1 boot menu thing) screen, but when it tries to boot, it prints "#" and doesn't boot. When trying to share the disk with Windows, mostly I'd get boot errors about not having a bootable device (ERROR: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed.). In the BIOS setting, I've tried both IDE and AHCI in "Storage Options -> SATA emulation". PC-BSD 9.1 has the same results. It installs fine, but resets after selecting something at the boot0 prompt. FreeBSD 8.4 wouldn't install because the installer didn't have device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev in order to create the filesystems. I haven't spent any time figuring out what's going on here. [Using the Standard Installer, accepted the message about geometry, told it to use the whole disk, use the standard boot manager, used the auto-default filesystems, told it to go...] Ubuntu Linux works. OpenBSD works. NetBSD works. Fedora Linux works. I've been a FreeBSD user for about 16 years, so I really want this to work. Does anyone have suggestions about what else I should try? Thanks, James [1] http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03704551&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&contentType=SupportFAQ&prodSeriesId=5330777 -- James E. Pace
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