On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 07:04:02PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:14:01 -0400 > schrieb Glen Barber <g...@freebsd.org>: > > > > The grub prompt for (Open)Solaris? Or do you use grub on FreeBSD? > > I thought it was a linux grub (the Firmware-Update DVD is linux-based > and I thought it had gone postal. > But I came to realize that it was the Solaris grub. > We only use FreeBSD on servers and it's always the only OS on the disks. >
Ok, thank you. I did not want to assume anything here. > > I _think_ at this point, you've hit the same problem I hit, the only > > difference is that in my case, 9.1-PRERELEASE was installed twice, > > because the paritions were not ideal. > > > > So, my guess is if you were to boot the install cd and select 'Live > > CD' or 'Shell' from the first menu option, and wrote the GPT bootcode > > to da0p1 (assuming da0 is the drive) and reboot, it would have booted > > fine. > > > I don't think this is what a user is expecting from an OS installation > routine.... > It's a bug. > Oh, I agree. For what it is worth, when I ran into this, I just merely thought I did something wrong during the install, so writing the gptboot code to the drive was my quick fix. I originally didn't bother reproducing it, until about an hour later when I saw this thread start. The frustrating part now is I have had zero luck reproducing the problem... Glen
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