Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:34:48 -0700 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org>, Fbsd1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" after installation (GOOD NEWS!) Message-ID: <ade45ae91001221834p7f9bab93r7ad8ade143cc7cd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100122110102.A31702@starfire.mn.org> References: <20100121014759.B3377@starfire.mn.org> <4B58127E.9000106@a1poweruser.com> <20100121065206.B8574@starfire.mn.org> <4B5863D6.2000800@a1poweruser.com> <20100121180336.B17543@starfire.mn.org> <4B59973B.8040203@a1poweruser.com> <20100122063614.A27734@starfire.mn.org> <20100122072756.A28958@starfire.mn.org> <20100122080950.B28958@starfire.mn.org> <20100122110102.A31702@starfire.mn.org>
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<SNIP> > OK - my current best theory is that if the Standard boot manager > is faced with anything other than exactly 1 bootable slice (partition > to it), it defaults to "Invalid partition table." I'll bet anyone > lunch that this is true. Any takers? I've read before: the standard bootloader looks for the first freebsd slice, and runs it. If there's no bsdlabel partition 'a' then it will have trouble booting. I haven't followed this thread in detail. I briefly saw you had 3 slices defined, is by chance the first slice a <non>system disk? > I'll test my theory tonight and let you all know how it turns out. > If this is true, then we should at least post some warnings, if not > actually fix the installation process so that if you choose "Standard," > it helps ensure that you have one and only one bootable slice/partition! > > Whaddaya think? > > Well, better it happen to me than someone from another community who is > trying us out for the first time... > -- > > John Lind > john@starfire.MN.ORG > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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