Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:34:18 -0800 From: Chris <bsd-lists@BSDforge.com> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CURRENT October images do not create a bootable install Message-ID: <7cf7f5e255eedbfa2a442b40c24f2fd9@udns.ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <20191108103225.4333bc3b@ernst.home>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:32:25 +0100 gljennjohn@gmail.com said > On Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:41:01 -0800 > Chris <bsd-lists@BSDforge.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 17:28:16 +0200 Toomas Soome tsoome@me.com said > > > > > > On 7. Nov 2019, at 17:23, Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 09:49:52 +0100 gljennjohn@gmail.com said > > > >> I chose GPT. > > > > > > Maybe whoever wrote the EFI/BIOS code in your machine went all-in on > > > > > > "Legacy", and it only handles MBR disks (or disks < 2.2TB)? > > > > After all, it seems like "not booting" would be a standards-compliant > > > > way for a classic BIOS to handle a GPT disk. > > > > > > > > if your system is not booting from GPT disk, it means it is not standards > > > compliant. > > Interesting. So then RELENG-12 is not "Standards" compliant. While 13-CURRE > > NT is? > > IOW I attempted in early October to install each of the (13-CURRENT) instal > > l > > images available. Both on a 500Gb disk, and a 1Tb disk. All w/o success. In > > desperation, I settled for the then (most recent) RELENG-12. 12 installed > > as all previous FreeBSD installs have done successfully. > > So something in (recent) 13' boot layout has changed. I can boot Legacy/UEF > > I/GPT > > on 12. But cannot boot at all in recent 13. > > > > I noticed that your 12 disk has Stripesize: 0 on all partitions > but 13 has Stripesize: 4096 on all partitions. > > My bootable 13 disk has Stripesize: 0 on all partitions. > > Whether that is the cause of your problem I can't say. Thanks for the reply, Gary. Toomas also had some valuable input on my problem booting 13. In any case. I used the installer to create the disk layout. I didn't do anything different than I have for many years installing FreeBSD from the install sources. What puzzles me, is that RELENG-12 creates a bootable install, whereas 13-CURRENT won't. I've manually setup disks innumerable times in the past. I'll see if doing so produces bootable media doing it from a 13-CURRENT live DVD, or MEMSTICK, and report my findings. Thanks again for taking the time to reply, Gary. > > [snip gpart output] > > -- > Gary Jennejohn --Chris
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