From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat May 23 09:01:17 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922BA2FC457 for ; Sat, 23 May 2020 09:01:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darcy@druid.net) Received: from mail.vex.net (mail.vex.net [98.158.139.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49Tclw3j7Wz4ZWv for ; Sat, 23 May 2020 09:01:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darcy@druid.net) Received: from dilbert.druid.net (unknown [216.105.80.70]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: darcy) by mail.vex.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 380B683D4E for ; Sat, 23 May 2020 05:01:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: installation of 12.1R and 11.3R fails To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: D'Arcy Cain Autocrypt: addr=darcy@druid.net; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= mDMEXno+ARYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAR2o17zm/M442SONWLjdQ/8Jpro8TbnUm/m1r4MHhygS0 HUQnQXJjeSBDYWluIDxkYXJjeUBkcnVpZC5uZXQ+iJYEExYIAD4WIQQZ0YBgv7psnnP4U/Hh AAd6d7lwwgUCXno+AQIbAwUJCWYBgAULCQgHAgYVCgkICwIEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRDhAAd6 d7lwwvvTAQCfxQvyB5M06arZ2cL4LDj0wVxG9ay0PTR+qrQQ9DhevAD+I7W9XlbX6qL3gfDe A0wmuPKWrdSRWEcagXI1sGSC3Ay4OAReej4BEgorBgEEAZdVAQUBAQdAbPzu0iryH2ph9hjN L+Cu1Wo85QbDLV174RHCnjmD5WMDAQgHiH4EGBYIACYWIQQZ0YBgv7psnnP4U/HhAAd6d7lw wgUCXno+AQIbDAUJCWYBgAAKCRDhAAd6d7lwwhb/AQD/8Vd7zTK1s3g4bFCApa3W4zSqUa3/ 9trMr0wfaEOngAEA8iWgHnExoVEdLo9542+dJ8K0L7ntWdfIZLgCXK/2OQ8= Message-ID: <7230ccba-340f-5769-305a-b77e6c03b9d0@druid.net> Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 05:01:10 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="U8hWqqR8yy8N0YeOb2UKUZe3RaaKRmwxW" X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49Tclw3j7Wz4ZWv X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of darcy@druid.net has no SPF policy when checking 98.158.139.68) smtp.mailfrom=darcy@druid.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.80 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.07)[-0.066]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.36)[0.358]; MIME_GOOD(-0.20)[multipart/signed,multipart/mixed,text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; HAS_ATTACHMENT(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[druid.net]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.01)[0.006]; SIGNED_PGP(-2.00)[]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:+,3:~]; ASN(0.00)[asn:19842, ipnet:98.158.139.0/24, country:CA]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 09:01:17 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --U8hWqqR8yy8N0YeOb2UKUZe3RaaKRmwxW Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="DW5cyNEb4gK0jVeiQyU0OdnrjSkkXJZL3" --DW5cyNEb4gK0jVeiQyU0OdnrjSkkXJZL3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2020-05-23 00:43, Donald Wilde wrote: > I will try using MBR instead of GPT, as you suggest. I did that once > the first time and no joy. Other than that and using the USB instead > of DVD, the only other delta in your procedure is zeroing the disk and > ensuring that all settings in BIOS are set to default. This is exactly what I found when going from Linux to FreeBSD. Just run dd(1) with input file /dev/zero on the raw disk before starting your installation. You have to completely wipe out the Linux boot blocks. --=20 D'Arcy J.M. Cain | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 788 2246 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. IM: darcy@VybeNetworks.com, VoIP: sip:darcy@druid.net --DW5cyNEb4gK0jVeiQyU0OdnrjSkkXJZL3-- --U8hWqqR8yy8N0YeOb2UKUZe3RaaKRmwxW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYIAB0WIQQZ0YBgv7psnnP4U/HhAAd6d7lwwgUCXsjmVgAKCRDhAAd6d7lw whpYAQCr3uxjM4NGfBs6P7eTuNJswKu6K43N8MoRez7OlssfBgD+MqjI8amKON/R Tp4tgXJgVSxEDyjxL5OA0upd9cq+nA0= =0aGB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --U8hWqqR8yy8N0YeOb2UKUZe3RaaKRmwxW--