From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 01:49:47 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 905AB809 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 01:49:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.parts-unknown.org (unknown [IPv6:2a02:c200:0:10::404:501]) (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 55968223F for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 01:49:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.parts-unknown.org (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.parts-unknown.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 136D912C1004; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:49:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.parts-unknown.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F338B12C100A; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:49:43 -0700 (PDT) References: <20140722184900.917B012C017A@mail.parts-unknown.org> <53CFC784.4060403@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <53CFC784.4060403@qeng-ho.org> From: David Benfell To: Arthur Chance Subject: Re: UEFI boot on 10.0 =?utf-8?Q?STABLE=3F?= Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:49:43 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20140724014943.F338B12C100A@mail.parts-unknown.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 01:49:47 -0000 Arthur Chance writes: > > https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=42781 This output looks much more promising than what I had found before: n4rky# gpart set -a active ada0 active set on ada0 But this is the same: n4rky# grub-install /dev/ada0 /usr/local/sbin/grub-bios-setup: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible. /usr/local/sbin/grub-bios-setup: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.. /usr/local/sbin/grub-bios-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists. And: n4rky# gpart show => 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (466G) 34 6 - free - (3.0K) 40 67108864 1 efi (32G) 67108904 128 2 freebsd-boot (64K) 67109032 16777216 3 freebsd-swap (8.0G) 83886248 892886886 4 freebsd-ufs (426G) 976773134 1 - free - (512B) I've assumed there is some incantation to get grub to do the right thing. But I'm mystified. Thanks! -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the attachment.