On Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:41:01 -0800 Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 17:28:16 +0200 Toomas Soome [email protected] said > > > > On 7. Nov 2019, at 17:23, Daniel Nebdal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 09:49:52 +0100 [email protected] 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. [snip gpart output] -- Gary Jennejohn _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
