On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 20:09:12 +0200 Toomas Soome [email protected] said
> On 7. Nov 2019, at 19:37, Chris.H <[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-CURRENT
> is?
Can not tell if you do not provide actual information, we can not really tell
too much. However, based on the partition tables below, I can tell a bit.
Those disks are using GPT, there is EFI partition, which does suggest UEFI
boot and not BIOS boot. There is no freebsd-boot partition, meaning the
standard pmbr boot block does not work (if installed) — pmbr does search
for freebsd-boot and will load its content and jumps on it. Without seeing
your sector 0, I can not tell what code is there (if any), and based on
partitions on that system, it is possible the BIOS boot is not installed at
all. In a similar way, without seeing EFI partition content, we can not tell
if UEFI boot is actually installed - EFI partition should have FAT file
system with specific directory tree.
To make things better, the exact description would be helpful, so the devs
taking care of installer could review the information and make fixes.
Right. Sorry. I forgot you had asked for the output of dd(1).
I've done so, and will send you the output directly (off list).
Thank you!
rgds,
toomas
[snip]
--Chris
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