From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 18:22:36 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE8DEB61 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c.mail.sonic.net (c.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.80]) (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 8E9CE85C for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (polaris.tachypleus.net [75.101.50.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by c.mail.sonic.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s8LIMSUX017638 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:22:29 -0700 Message-ID: <541F1764.2030109@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:22:28 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Mayhar Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable. References: <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> <541AB164.80707@beastielabs.net> <1411078978.90616.21.camel@jill.exit.com> <541DACA2.3000900@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Sonic-CAuth: UmFuZG9tSVa8tLLk976bSVneJ4d1mXv+oNKtWh+8Cs0NSL1pV49OYbaQWUXD7BNr5kSKpOmYK47oDzevNbCik6zYJAwSv0xuwFr56jV2xAM= X-Sonic-ID: C;+tdWPrxB5BG8WzZXoK8kYw== M;ep3PPrxB5BG8WzZXoK8kYw== X-Spam-Flag: No X-Sonic-Spam-Details: 0.0/5.0 by cerberusd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: freebsd-hackers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:22:36 -0000 On 09/21/14 06:46, Frank Mayhar wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Nathan Whitehorn > > 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 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