From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Nov 13 10:53:36 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B6191AD86C for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:53:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47ChL75CXmz3Nc0 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:53:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix, from userid 1237) id 93F164E656; Wed, 13 Nov 2019 02:53:34 -0800 (PST) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: NEVERMIND! (was: Fresh install (12.1-RELEASE) won't boot) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <68842.1573642414.1@segfault.tristatelogic.com> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 02:53:34 -0800 Message-ID: <68843.1573642414@segfault.tristatelogic.com> X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 47ChL75CXmz3Nc0 X-Spamd-Bar: ----- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of rfg@tristatelogic.com designates 69.62.255.118 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=rfg@tristatelogic.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-5.29 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[tristatelogic.com]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; SUBJECT_HAS_EXCLAIM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_ZERO(0.00)[0]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:14051, ipnet:69.62.128.0/17, country:US]; IP_SCORE(-2.99)[ip: (-7.85), ipnet: 69.62.128.0/17(-3.92), asn: 14051(-3.12), country: US(-0.05)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:53:36 -0000 I re-did the install and now all is well, so obviously, it wasn't anything to do with Secure Boot, or MBR versus GPT. I really don't know what went wrong. The only thing that I did different the second time I did the install was that instead of making one huge / partition and then a 4GB swap partition, I made a 20GB / partition, then a 4GB swap, and then the rest of the (128GB) drive I set up as /home. (I did manual partitioning both times.) The only other thing I did different was that on my second install attempt I had the USB install stick in a USD 2.0 port, rather than in one of the system's USB 3.0 ports. The original problem may have all been down to some issues with kernel support for the USB ports on this machine. I saw multiple CAM errors on the USB stick when I first tried to redo the install from one of the USB 3.0 ports. But I also got CAM errors relating to the USB stick just -after- my second (successful) install attempt (from a USB 2.0 port) had completed, and as the system was shutting down in preparation for reboot. Weird! Regards, rfg P.S. On the second install attempt I did try to use MBR rather than GPT partitioning, but the install process politely informed me that this hardware apparently doesn't like good old MBR.