Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:22:28 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable. Message-ID: <541F1764.2030109@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CADME5u6QOmkspaiP4r90c7opMJN9cYvM_DZHNqQhyKbtYx2mCw@mail.gmail.com> References: <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> <541AB164.80707@beastielabs.net> <loom.20140918T225950-776@post.gmane.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1409190001590.873@laptop> <1411078978.90616.21.camel@jill.exit.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1409201410350.1085@laptop> <541DACA2.3000900@freebsd.org> <CADME5u6QOmkspaiP4r90c7opMJN9cYvM_DZHNqQhyKbtYx2mCw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 09/21/14 06:46, Frank Mayhar wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Nathan Whitehorn > <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org <mailto:nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>> wrote: > > Could you describe the exact problem here so that we can fix the > installer? If this is the mark one partition active thing, I'm not > sure we can change that, since there are also systems *that* breaks. > > > I'm not sure I can describe the *exact* problem, since I don't > completely understand it. What I can say that if I put the laptop > into legacy-boot mode and mark the partition active, it boots. If I > put it into UEFI boot mode and install, even if I install the pmbr and > mark it active, the BIOS doesn't find it. This is a bit different > message from the earlier one I quoted, it's a set of messages clearly > from the BIOS claiming that it can't find a boot partition; I can > reproduce it and quote it exactly if it would help. It also offers > ways to go to Setup, retry the boot or run diagnostics. Marking the > partition inactive doesn't help, in fact I couldn't figure out any way > to make it detect the partition. In the BIOS, where you choose UEFI, > it has a search function. In legacy mode it finds all the possible > boot devices, but in UEFI it claims, IIRC, that it can't find an > operating system and produces no list of potential boot devices. > > This is on a Dell Precision M6800, as I said before. If you have any > more questions, feel free to ask. > -- > Frank Mayhar > fmayhar@gmail.com <mailto:fmayhar@gmail.com> One more: can you boot the UEFI memstick image in UEFI mode? There's a possible misfeature in the firmware I want to check for. -Nathan
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