From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jul 17 04:11:39 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00059104EC84 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 04:11:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from bucksport.safeport.com (bucksport.safeport.com [198.74.231.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F17E573168 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 04:11:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from bucksport.safeport.com (bucksport.safeport.com [198.74.231.101]) by bucksport.safeport.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id w6H3jjmp015166 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 23:45:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 23:45:45 -0400 (EDT) From: DTD To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD 11.2 will not boot after zfs install Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (bucksport.safeport.com [198.74.231.101]); Mon, 16 Jul 2018 23:45:46 -0400 (EDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 04:11:39 -0000 The system is an HP Pavilion 580-137c with UFI BIOS. First I tossed windows and did a Guided GPT install setting up partitions as I normally do. I got this system as a Poudriere build system. So I installed Poudriere + necessary ports and built a repository. All this worked fine. So as I had "little" invested in this system I thought I would install zfs. I used the install zfs root option taking all defaults. After that the system would not boot. The only difference I could see was bsdinstall no longer offered ACPI as an option and the console came up with a higher resolution (1024x768 I think). From here I tried all sorts of BIOS setting, secure boot on/off and some other variations. In all cases, the install went without error and the system would not boot giving no messages, just a black screen. So I went back to the guided GPT install. Using the livecd I ran fsck on each of the ufs slices and then mounted them. This all worked fine but still booting from disk gave only a black screen. so line I tried: gpart set -a active /dev/ada0 gpart set -a bootme -i 1 /dev/ada0 Currently I have: gpart show => 40 1953525088 ada0 GPT (932G) 40 409600 1 efi [bootme] (200M) 409640 8388608 2 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 8798248 4194304 3 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 12992552 104857600 4 freebsd-ufs (50G) 117850152 83886080 5 freebsd-ufs (40G) 201736232 1751121920 6 freebsd-ufs (835G) 1952858152 666976 - free - (326M) => 40 1953525088 diskid/DISK-87KE5PYNS GPT (932G) 40 409600 1 efi [bootme] (200M) 409640 8388608 2 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 8798248 4194304 3 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 12992552 104857600 4 freebsd-ufs (50G) 117850152 83886080 5 freebsd-ufs (40G) 201736232 1751121920 6 freebsd-ufs (835G) 1952858152 666976 - free - (326M) /dev/ada0p1 looks ok: in efi/boot ls -l -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 393216 Apr 16 10:12 BOOTx64.efi* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Apr 16 10:12 startup.nsh* however now booting from the disk gives the following: Boot Device Not Found Please install an operating system on your hard disk. This is formatted as white on blue in a centered box. I assume is from the BIOS. _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277