From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 16:06:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD4E106568B for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:06:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amsibamsi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com (mail-fx0-f222.google.com [209.85.220.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9CDA8FC24 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:06:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so1264744fxm.36 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:05:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=2L4IUDKGI9i8Abh2xrENqdm9SXPWU6H1TdSSrlSJJoY=; b=PSEE3QTkb8C34SJQ9Qxry7xfODOIXQ9mQKfKN9A3f+9CN9B9NvcL/CnZTEdUexCxs2 atcWa2Wu3RhRi+T6NBmanPPmvJm+cx32H7bYnU45H9aRHIGx7dEI+Zueb4KZJ87QwJ92 /KukpfnGzmk2TeFraVFa2ywzpDcGzP4ZytI9k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=TR9Nkq3l7MjHjq5/gZj9pJCQiDvWzdj+EgbtXy9SvBpbvf90hGAtU7e9s5g1A27mMr +YHFQL7HAIVENt03HQ32wjvctDTg8eJzGRpqFTXqNgDk/9UT0DasVWDj8NCkzkTmaDo1 LPiEKzmA6RZHj2+OEsqIBhTVjo+vlnouwc4j0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.18.145 with SMTP id w17mr35811faa.66.1255622759818; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:05:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:05:59 +0200 Message-ID: <29722c130910150905m2d39b65cnd98a07bfc60af7b@mail.gmail.com> From: Anselm Strauss To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: ZFS boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:06:01 -0000 I just ran into the very same problem, although I use UFS instead of ZFS, but I think this doesn't matter for this problem. I updated to tinyBIOS v0.99h and now it works fine. Cheers, Anselm > Hi, > > I'm trying to boot a PC-engines board off GPT+ZFS, but the GPT MBR does not > support CHS layout and requests data per LBA, which the PC Engines BIOS > does > not support. > > Anyone have a solution for this laying around? > > --HPS > > PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99 > 640 KB Base Memory > 261120 KB Extended Memory > > 01F0 Master 044A CF 1GB > Phys C/H/S 1966/16/63 Log C/H/S 983/32/63 > Invalid partition table > > sys/boot/i386/pmbr > > %grep Invalid pmbr.s > err_pt: movw $msg_pt,%si # "Invalid partition > msg_pt: .asciz "Invalid partition table"