From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jul 12 06:33:24 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E059995C6 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from douhisi.pair.com (douhisi.pair.com [209.68.5.179]) (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 E4D5D1C6F for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:33:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from [10.2.2.1] (pool-173-48-121-235.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [173.48.121.235]) by douhisi.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 377C93F6E1; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 02:33:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <55A20A31.5090309@sneakertech.com> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 02:33:21 -0400 From: Quartz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: reg@dwf.com CC: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD install. References: <201507120402.t6C427Dg001385@deneb.dwf.com> In-Reply-To: <201507120402.t6C427Dg001385@deneb.dwf.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:33:24 -0000 > I say yes to the reboot, and instead of rebooting from disk, I > get the bios messages (Im using a mbr) that say its trying to > boot from the ethernet. I think first you need to narrow this down and figure out if this is a case where the bios doesn't want to see it, or *can't*. Try messing with your boot device order and disable net/PXE booting, rearrange it so the HD is first, and/or bring up the 'boot device menu' during boot (usually hold F12) and see if you can force it to pick the drive. > And why isnt the installer smart enough to install to a partition, > every other OS in existence can do that. The installer has always been rather primitive honestly. The boot0/boot1 loaders aren't amazing either. I think your best bet (assuming you want to give it another go) is install PC-BSD first with grub and set up and format all the partitions with their necessary gpt labels there, then boot the FreeBSD installer but drop into the shell mode and manually mount your partitions and manually extract all the stuff into them. Then add what you need to your grub configs. Here's an old link about doing something like this for FreeBSD v8, I think most of it still applies to v10. http://www.freebsdonline.com/content/view/732/531/