On 01/30/13 15:02, Robert Huff wrote: > > Gary Aitken writes: > >> I used gpart to set up a new disk, >> then went through a 9.1 install. >> Everything seemed to go fine, but when time came to boot the new drive, >> it wouldn't boot. > > While the "it wouldn't boot" is catastrophically imprecise,
I knew I'd get hammered on that :-) Screen goes blank, spinner spins maybe two notches, then just sits there. So gptboot isn't even started. > I > had what sounds like a similar problem about a month ago. > I installed from the 9.0 CD and everything appeared to go > correctly. However, on final re-boot the loader couldn't identify > the root partition. > The solution was to identify the disks using the GPT labels in > fstab. > Check the archive of questions@ for more details. Found the archive, didn't really help. However, I did rewrite both boot areas and that solved the problem: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada3 gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada3 So apparently the 9.1 installer wipes out at least the boot code in partition 1. Since the spinner went a few notches, I suspect the primary boot block is ok, but it crashed when it can't execute the gptboot code. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
