Sorry about the accidental spam, if I sent the reply twice, everyone! On Sep 26, 2015 7:19 PM, "Valerio Mariani" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear All, > > first of all let me introduce myself. My name is Valerio, I work as a > software developer (mainly C and python) in a scientific institution and I > live in Germany. I have been a Linux user for around 10 years and I am > currently exploring the BSD world. I am not one of the systemd "refugees", > I actually love systemd. I have just become curious about the BSD world, > especially concerning the engineering of the system and the quality of the > documentation. I then decided to try a BSD out. > > Since the only laptop where I can test BSD has a Bay Trail CPU, pretty > much my only choice was DragonflyBSD (due to the GPU support). I then > decided to start with it. > > However, I had a problem. I could only install DragonflyBSD on a laptop > with a gpt formatted drive, and other OSes on it, that I cannot remove... > > So I thought that the best choice was to use a Hybrid MBR partition table, > where I exposed to the MS DOS partition table only the slice used by > DragonflyBSD. > > I then managed to install the system using the default installer. I > manually created the subpartitions, mounted manually boot and root > (skipping those very steps in the installer) and went on with the rest. > > My problem is now the bootloader, which refuses to boot and beeps > immediately to indicate an error. It then beeps at every keys that I press > > I read some material about boot0, but I have a few questions: > > - Do Hybrid MBRs need some special setup for boot0? > > -Is there a way to know what is causing boot0 to fail? > > My main goal is to learn to use some BSDs, so feel free to elaborate on > the technicalities if you can help me. > > Thank ypu > > Valerio > > > >
