From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 5 18:03:13 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12715BC for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:03:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james@pacehouse.com) Received: from mail-qa0-x236.google.com (mail-qa0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822D21A06 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:03:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id n20so1358201qaj.13 for ; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:03:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=pacehouse.com; s=google; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=S7f+n8gqWGo+y1JipM6ib8aNiAdXrddVOCymjRHiLzA=; b=cXg4wznNBy1Ovf0DC6/mkuIWsgV3f1CkPeinlPLXiD1D+J3Qci+d/JIvEj/dj9p+Ey ArQXwkuqxVPw336dwXnZixHviUBl3Uh/PgrFCu7Yqg+KgRSh+Ax2UmTsEHYtHp1OUqhb cfHiFCAv9d0sVtFtJ/+CbGegBi85hV69la88M= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=S7f+n8gqWGo+y1JipM6ib8aNiAdXrddVOCymjRHiLzA=; b=j8mYN5THTEwT7nYeGpHNOTUzs9V3xdYH4m7Lfj9XhrtRnHFZzgaCiM0ypsn90g2xer YYRFb711Hrl7WFLjNTXwVJyhaqFzUW8gam5Re6QDQsKExWhGl83CVY4ofbfkIl8yUrTQ 0oz5Gwk8iRdBWRvQW20kMTBiT8LVUrYnDWJ0kFn0G5vlpo20PgdUaG8O2fcY+GyeA8kn xlqXFeOslBClOoD4i+fxWTJIqK3vQJaIE0GXcd+/YP659Mg6kV20Bbi1hSiGh9T29HNB mcd/H7T7c7BV6tAaxHuCkhQQ8nhf9UpcIaxzjMIaU+QfsxcF5I8Y7kDAYM297Mewqpmy ++GQ== X-Received: by 10.49.58.195 with SMTP id t3mr6683678qeq.92.1373047393108; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:03:13 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.49.96.5 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 11:02:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "James E. Pace" Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 11:02:52 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlSEvjHdQt0RWbgKRuWTC/WFFKzCm//ihg7FmTccO9eTuspRSKcqCP5lF/PMDxE+g49xMbB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 18:03:13 -0000 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