On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 20:43:33 +0200 Toomas Soome [email protected] said
> On 8. Nov 2019, at 20:34, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:> > On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:32:25 +0100 [email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> said> >> 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.> > 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. >>Did you manage to check what is in your efi (ESP) partition? Also, can you confirm if your system is set to boot in BIOS or UEFI mode? Note this may be tricky to figure, for example my AMI bios depends on which device is set for boot device. Also for UEFI boot, we do not support secure boot.
Thanks for the reminder. It appears that the installer didn't *format* the ESP/EFI partition. Following are the results of my investigation -- I'm also attaching a copy of the session, should it be easier to read. Script started on Fri Nov 8 11:04:11 2019root@thirteen:~ #
root@thirteen:~ # ls -la /dev/gpt/ total 1 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 7 00:54 . dr-xr-xr-x 15 root wheel 512 Nov 6 16:54 .. crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x8e Nov 7 00:54 throot crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x91 Nov 7 00:54 thswap crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x96 Nov 7 00:54 thusr crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x93 Nov 7 00:54 thvar crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x99 Nov 7 00:54 thxtra crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x72 Nov 6 16:54 troot crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x75 Nov 7 00:54 tswap crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x7a Nov 6 16:54 tusr crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x77 Nov 6 16:54 tvar crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x7d Nov 6 16:54 txtra root@thirteen:~ # mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada0p1 /mnt root@thirteen:~ # ls -la /mnt/ total 21 drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Jan 1 1980 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 1024 Nov 7 00:54 .. drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Apr 12 2016 EFI root@thirteen:~ # ls -la /mnt/EFI/ total 17 drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Apr 12 2016 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Jan 1 1980 .. drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Apr 12 2016 BOOT root@thirteen:~ # ls -la /mnt/EFI/BOOT/ total 130 drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Apr 12 2016 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Apr 12 2016 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 131072 Apr 12 2016 BOOTX64.EFI -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Apr 12 2016 STARTUP.NSH root@thirteen:~ # umount /mnt/ root@thirteen:~ # mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada1p1 /mnt mount_msdosfs: /dev/ada1p1: Invalid argument root@thirteen:~ # ls /dev/ada* /dev/ada0 /dev/ada0p2 /dev/ada0p4 /dev/ada0p6 /dev/ada1p1 /dev/ada1p3 /dev/ada1p5 /dev/ada0p1 /dev/ada0p3 /dev/ada0p5 /dev/ada1 /dev/ada1p2 /dev/ada1p4 /dev/ada1p6 root@thirteen:~ # mount /dev/ada1p1 /mnt/ mount: /dev/ada1p1: No such file or directory root@thirteen:~ # exit exit Script done on Fri Nov 8 11:09:35 2019 Thanks again! --Chris
rgds, toomas
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