Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 13:04:22 -0400 (EDT) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.2 will not boot after zfs install [solved?] Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1807191243320.77637@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1807162027320.27692@bucksport.safeport.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1807162027320.27692@bucksport.safeport.com>
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Excuse the top post, I considered just deleting the stuff below but this email is self-contained done this way. I started out being convinced this was an install bug. My efforts in futility are documented below. After getting the BIOS settings the way recommended by the various UEFI docs and HP said they should be, I installed 11.2 manually using the only livecd. The end result was the same, the EFI routine first invoked did not find anything to pass control to. At this point I think two things: (1) the zfs install over wrote something it should not have in the EFI partition; and (2) the HP 'reset the factory defaults' setting did not put it back. If you are going to do a FreeBSD only install on an HP I would recommend backing up the UFI partition before doing anything else. I might have had a better result if I left windows on the system. I made many mistakes putting FreeBSD along with windows on a Lenovo and in each case where I rendered the system not bootable the repair stuff baled me out. The fact that a non-zfs installed gave me confidence that the zfs install would be okay. It may be that FreeBSD needs outside assistance in a UEFI environment. On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, DTD wrote: > The system is an HP Pavilion 580-137c with UFI BIOS. First I tossed windows > and did a Guided GPT install setting up partitions as I normally do. I got > this system as a Poudriere build system. So I installed Poudriere + necessary > ports and built a repository. All this worked fine. So as I had "little" > invested in this system I thought I would install zfs. I used the install zfs > root option taking all defaults. After that the system would not boot. The > only difference I could see was bsdinstall no longer offered ACPI as an > option and the console came up with a higher resolution (1024x768 I think). > From here I tried all sorts of BIOS setting, secure boot on/off and some > other variations. In all cases, the install went without error and the system > would not boot giving no messages, just a black screen. > > So I went back to the guided GPT install. Using the livecd I ran fsck on each > of the ufs slices and then mounted them. This all worked fine but still > booting from disk gave only a black screen. so line I tried: > > gpart set -a active /dev/ada0 > gpart set -a bootme -i 1 /dev/ada0 > > Currently I have: > > gpart show > => 40 1953525088 ada0 GPT (932G) > 40 409600 1 efi [bootme] (200M) > 409640 8388608 2 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) > 8798248 4194304 3 freebsd-swap (2.0G) > 12992552 104857600 4 freebsd-ufs (50G) > 117850152 83886080 5 freebsd-ufs (40G) > 201736232 1751121920 6 freebsd-ufs (835G) > 1952858152 666976 - free - (326M) > > => 40 1953525088 diskid/DISK-87KE5PYNS GPT (932G) > 40 409600 1 efi [bootme] (200M) > 409640 8388608 2 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) > 8798248 4194304 3 freebsd-swap (2.0G) > 12992552 104857600 4 freebsd-ufs (50G) > 117850152 83886080 5 freebsd-ufs (40G) > 201736232 1751121920 6 freebsd-ufs (835G) > 1952858152 666976 - free - (326M) > > /dev/ada0p1 looks ok: in efi/boot > ls -l > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 393216 Apr 16 10:12 BOOTx64.efi* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Apr 16 10:12 startup.nsh* > > however now booting from the disk gives the following: > > Boot Device Not Found > Please install an operating system on your hard disk. > > This is formatted as white on blue in a centered box. I assume is from the > BIOS. > > > _____ > Douglas Denault > http://www.safeport.com > doug@safeport.com > Voice: 301-217-9220 > Fax: 301-217-9277 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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