Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 12:17:29 -0500 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: Heikki Lindholm <holindho@saunalahti.fi> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Efi/mbr freebsd-11.0-RELEASE-p9 unbootable Message-ID: <CAJ5UdcP-ncOZd5mE%2BSdjrEShKLvfVsSZdP4kS4T_QbijXputqw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e3e7419a-6e13-feb5-c684-81cfb1e6f5e5@saunalahti.fi> References: <CAJ5UdcNgxMPeVxYM3kvuf39rmyaVoHh22JiSwL2YUn1%2BSSYPtg@mail.gmail.com> <e3e7419a-6e13-feb5-c684-81cfb1e6f5e5@saunalahti.fi>
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Heikki Lindholm <holindho@saunalahti.fi> wrote: > On 14.04.2017 05:38, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> >> Dear freebsd users, >> >> I got a used toshiba-laptop with windows 7. A friend of mine gave me a >> new >> hard drive and we installed void-linux with a 1GB /boot partition, an 8 GB >> swap partitionx and a 100GB / for the install. Installation suceeded, but >> grub install failed some ttx? Error. I then got a regular x86_64 amd >> freebsd 11.0 RELEASE and installed it sucessfully as well. I did not get >> questioned to install bootloader. When booting the machine tries to boot >> off the network. I get a supergrubdisk and boot off it and I am able to >> run freebsd-update on it get it to -p9 and install pkgs that I want to >> run. I am not very fond of secure boot and I had installed linux on >> another machine with windows 7 and it supposedly had EFI support, however >> when grub installed, i lost the ability to boot into windows. In this >> machine a toshiba satellite laptop, I tried to play it safe and instead >> cannot boot either void-linux or freebsd from the hard drive. I can boot >> into freebsd with supergrubdisk, i don't believe it is a question of EFI >> because I had previously installed DragonflyBSD 4.8 which has support for >> EFI and I selected it as well, but the system was unbootable as well. How >> should I troubleshoot this? I can boot from live media, but I cannot >> install grub or the freebsd bootloader. Hard drive is 465 GB, with the >> above mentioned linux partitions, the rest for freebsd with ufs. If there >> is a how to, or a laptop wiki on this topic, I appreciate all your help >> even if it would be recommended that I reinstall the OS again from >> scratch. I am confused with GPT vs old style MBR which just worked TM by >> the way and this secure boot crap which renders our machines unbootable. > > > Show the output of gpart show ada0 (or whatever your disk is) for better > guesswork to begin. You might need to (1) disable secure boot, (2) enable > bios emulation, (3) install FreeBSD (and linux) with the BIOS/MBR booter > instead of EFI. > > Regards, > Heikki Lindholm > > _______________________________________________ > 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" Before taking out a hammer and nuking everything, I will show what output of gpart: root@toshiba-f104:~ # gpart show ada0 => 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (466G) 34 2014 - free - (1.0M) 2048 2097152 1 linux-data (1.0G) 2099200 16777216 2 linux-swap (8.0G) 18876416 209715200 3 linux-data (100G) 228591616 1024 4 freebsd-boot (512K) 228592640 740293624 5 freebsd-ufs (353G) 968886264 7886870 6 freebsd-swap (3.8G) 976773134 1 - free - (512B) root@toshiba-f104:~ # I use SUPER GRUB DISK to boot. I check the linux-data and it should be linux /boot which is ext2 partition, just that grub failed to install. If I try stuff out and it does not work, then I will just give it back to my friend. I check the bios, I cannot find the secure boot option to disable it :( Any pointers and suggestions before I take out the hammer or give up and give it back to my friend. Laptop is a SATELLITE L775-S7135 which should be supported. Best Regards, Antonio
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