From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 10 16:40:14 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 B811A99EAE0 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:40:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@kraus-haus.org) Received: from mail-qg0-f52.google.com (mail-qg0-f52.google.com [209.85.192.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B9981F7 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:40:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@kraus-haus.org) Received: by qgj62 with SMTP id 62so96109434qgj.2 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:40:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=1bObwMmoDHr9bjPjzFDaOCDTRTcdhur0jjOOxarZ3Qk=; b=bLnaHX7/Q7F7uN+CqsYZUvigCrR3j6JFSvJ+xlJX9FezJD0hg93gy03rxs7Qu8V7Ge LH+YzAK9O9JanBOqUvZpqP2KBSSTAOgU5RvDlwLBg9ZE+eN5LFfH4FZiHnLbWIGfKubf UJTWzyVDJ+tu3UyttXlAqhd+f2sLEqN9juMYfjMz5IVb9uyQuPECCeOkKOJ8M5WRXGCV zVGrmUPVOy086HiYOXA2HgxnTTFYnh/zRlEkk+Y8IUlWFHWkkq8tLXz9M+lycyexeGzH ZuJa03PYk8wmysLpnzxqKiFPKvAlOFuCQ+eb+22JlIxcx5cZzY6l7pemm+rl+4ZfCfGh uowg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnUwRzHN9NmvD7YAg2r2t8skFL1zNsKg6GMPVW3UfgCLFnZB597mktBoh0YNFjvCT1uKe11 X-Received: by 10.140.238.73 with SMTP id j70mr8012860qhc.81.1439224807578; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mbp-1.thecreativeadvantage.com (mail.thecreativeadvantage.com. [96.236.20.34]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r68sm9028658qha.48.2015.08.10.09.40.04 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: Can't boot FreeBSD. From: Paul Kraus In-Reply-To: <201508092246.t79MkXmO001514@deneb.dwf.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:40:03 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <9300850F-0654-4531-ADE3-EA28D96ADA8E@kraus-haus.org> References: <201508092246.t79MkXmO001514@deneb.dwf.com> To: reg@dwf.com, FreeBSD questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) 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: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:40:14 -0000 On Aug 9, 2015, at 18:46, reg@dwf.com wrote: > I have done what appears to be a clean install of FreeBSD 10.1, > but on the 'reboot' the intel boot falls thru to the ethernet > boot, as if there isn't any info in the boot block. By clean install I assume you mean you went through the installer = process to it=92s completion. What did you choose for disk layout (UFS, ZFS, or manual) ?=20 If you used the manual option you may have missed a step to install the = boot loader. Take a look at the man page for gpart and the section on = BOOTSTRAPPING here = https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dgpart&apropos=3D0&sektion=3D0&= manpath=3DFreeBSD+10.1-RELEASE&arch=3Ddefault&format=3Dhtml and the = examples at the end. > I have tried this install on two different disks on this machine > with the same results (changing the BIOS to get to the 2nd disk). I had an older system that would not boot with a GPT partition, I had to = use an MBR partition (I was using ZFS for boot drive). I have also had others report that they needed to set the BIOS to Legacy = for SATA controllers instead of AHCI in some cases. -- Paul Kraus paul@kraus-haus.org