On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:28 AM, John-Mark Gurney <j...@funkthat.com> wrote:
> Andy Moran wrote this message on Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:12 -0700: >> >> On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 19.09.2013 16:43, Andrew Moran wrote: >>>> Alas, that did not work. But it does look to be BIOS related. >>>> >>>> I think this new system has a UEFI bios. >>>> >>>> I just read from https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI: >>>> * Partitions not seen. When using GPT, FreeBSD will create a protective >>>> MBR. This MBR has one partition entry covering the whole disk. FreeBSD >>>> marks this partition active. This causes at least some UEFI >>>> implementations to ignore the GPT. To fix this the partition needs to be >>>> marked inactive. >>>> * Filesystem not seen. FreeBSD's FAT32 code appears to sometimes create >>>> filesystems that the UEFI code can't properly read. If the filesystem is >>>> small enough, use FAT16 or FAT12 instead. >>>> >>>> I think this may be my issue. But 9.1 LiveCD does boot and I can see the >>>> data once booted, so there must be a way to fix the boot loader on the >>>> drive to work. >>> >>> Good catch. The fix landed in stable not so long ago >>> (http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=255017) so you >>> wouldn't find it in 9.2 either. Can you try this: >>> >>> gpart unset -a active ada0 >> >> >> It says 'active' is an invalid attribute. This matches what gpart mangpage >> says under ATTRIBUTES .. it doesn't list 'active' as an attribute for the >> GPT partition scheme (but it does for other schemes). I did try to unset >> 'bootme' but that did not help either. >> >> Do I need the newer version of gpart to be able to unset or set it? > > You could try the new 10-ALPHA1 LiveCD to unset it.. > > -- WIth the 10-ALPHA2 LiveCD, I get: gpart: attrib 'active': Device not configured I can set/unset the bootme attribute and I can do: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i ada0 But neither seems to get me out of my jam -- the UEFI doesn't seem to see it as a bootable disk. :( --Andy _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
