Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 09:47:54 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IBM KVM on Power 8 again - tried 11 20151217-r292413 Message-ID: <56798CCA.5080308@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3pQ3RP0JrrzRRrx@baobab.bilink.it> References: <3pPvR73fpRz1cXKx@baobab.bilink.it> <56796CC0.8050103@freebsd.org> <3pQ3RP0JrrzRRrx@baobab.bilink.it>
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On 12/22/15 08:36, Luciano Mannucci wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 07:31:12 -0800 > Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> That's quite odd. Maybe that particular kernel had a regression? I just >> successfully installed the 20151130 snapshot. Have you tried that one? > Yes. > This one installs flawlessly. After that, the next boot gives me: Interesting. I'll try to see what happened with the 1215 one. The most recent -CURRENT from source also seems to work, so perhaps the snapshot builds had the misfortune of catching a transient problem. > Trying to load: from: /vdevice/v-scsi@2000/disk@8000000000000000 ... > E3404: Not a bootable device! > > Well, I don'nt know which format scheme I should use (MBR? GPT?...) > Or maybe there is a problem with the qcow2 format... Interesting. You should use the default MBR formatting in the installer. That will create a prep-boot partition and a bsdlabel in a subsequent partition, in which / must be first. This error indicates that the firmware could not locate the prep-boot partition. -Nathan > Any hints? > > Thanks again, > > Luciano.
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