Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:57:30 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable. Solved. Ish. Message-ID: <541C607A.5000407@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1411127384.92654.9.camel@jill.exit.com> References: <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> <1411127384.92654.9.camel@jill.exit.com>
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On 09/19/14 04:49, Frank Mayhar wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 21:11 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: >> Someone please give me a hint of what's going on here. I just got a >> Dell Precision M6800. It's not doing UEFI, it's all legacy. I pulled >> the installed drive and dropped in a Seagate hybrid 1T drive, then tried >> (and tried, and tried, and tried) to install 10-stable on it. I'm using >> a memstick image, btw. >> >> No matter what I try and no matter whether I use bsdinstall or do the >> gpart stuff by hand, everything goes fine until I try to boot the new >> install when all I get is "Invalid partition table!" And nothing. >> >> Am I going to have to use a legacy MBR and disklabel rather than gpt? >> Can anyone give me any hints as to what I might look for? I've googled >> to no avail (just some stuff from 2010 that doesn't seem to apply). >> >> I really want to follow the setup outlined at >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot . > Well, I got it going. In fact, when I got home last night I found that > it was sitting there running FreeBSD off the disk. After some > experimentation, I found that I had left it in legacy boot mode after > strictly following the instructions in the above web page. And I think > I had set the MBR to active, although I can't really remember. > > Even with that hack, however, UEFI just plain didn't work. It didn't > find the bootable partition; when I tried to get it to look for it it > claimed "Operating System not found" or something along those lines. It > may well be looking for Windows only, I guess. > > Fortunately I can live with legacy boot. I reinstalled that way, > following a slightly-modified version of the ZFS-root instructions > above, and I'm installing ports as I write this. > > So, notwithstanding the lack of UEFI support, success! Did you have secure boot enabled? -Nathan
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