From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 22:50:25 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C9B188D7 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:50:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x234.google.com (mail-qa0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 86544F7D for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:50:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f52.google.com with SMTP id m5so1413182qaj.11 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:50:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :thread-index:content-language; bh=jXjN3AgxzthXFZJcfS59W3Hh1Ubkrh29lkpRLCgLVy0=; b=cNaHR8/fq/Jel0YECLeqlTwZ6AN2N8rDlNokIYdZ3t1EyUXjymI+eyg1TXgxNJvkZ/ Gt/yPqzGK9LrsFsZYltDq4Y5oo4Qe5mlyYjisDgZkG6pP2/zNxyWE6prLbYM7nG9MX7P sU2SfDNI4M78ii614W34jJ4YLr133TyV1jwmi49psrVRHd/CLjYElum2NFxOtNVrS1QA gho98d1mYPUDbHn6HMY8cCfosPZI8xMfLypgMMXIr44HpEk5xYflp/inY4565rgsmwD1 Goxmn+kKl77bTJNxDxiWdwWeQJpuOOlCId3JL7lm8/vigfq2tcjb1WDtvC769zvvQzAb UMOg== X-Received: by 10.140.93.198 with SMTP id d64mr1261423qge.1.1395787824755; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:50:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Travelin (74-132-205-61.dhcp.insightbb.com. [74.132.205.61]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 104sm19615597qgq.1.2014.03.25.15.50.24 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:50:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Steven Friedrich To: Subject: Installing FreeBSD 10.0 to GPT volume Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:50:39 -0400 Message-ID: <002901cf487c$a5a2fae0$f0e8f0a0$@Gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Thread-Index: Ac9IeViXGpu9/pvpTMS19gX//H7thA== Content-Language: en-us X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140325-1, 03/25/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:50:25 -0000 I have tried everything that I can gleen from the gpart, gptboot, boot0cfg man pages as well as the handbook. I have noticed several bugs in the new install, which I find odd, since it's been around since ver 5 or so. Does bsdinstall write boot code to gpt partitions? I have tried to install several times, even using gpart to write boot code to the GPT partition as well as a freebsd-boot partition. I've installed a protective mbr. Nothing appears to work. The drive is a 3TB Toshiba USB 3.0 external drive. The computer is a Samsung series 7 CHRONOS with Pheonix BIOS with UEFI support. I have tried UEFI enabled and disabled. The laptop is an Intel CORE i7. This should run amd64, not ia64, right? Under what circumstances would you use bios-boot or efi partitions? Neither were shown as examples on gpart man page. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com