Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:46:11 +0300 From: Heikki Lindholm <holindho@saunalahti.fi> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD-11 on i386 Message-ID: <58FB88D3.3000208@saunalahti.fi> In-Reply-To: <f30508a65ec1e05ad0ae32660a255e52.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <f30508a65ec1e05ad0ae32660a255e52.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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21.4.2017 17.55, James B. Byrne kirjoitti:
> I am going to need some detailed guidance (i.e. hand-holding) on
> resolving this. The story so far:
>
> 1. Downloaded FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso and ran sha256sum
> which checked out OK.
>
> 2. Burnt a DVD from said .iso image.
>
> 3. Installed FreeBSD on an HP-Compaq DC7700S (2 Gb RAM, 500Gb SATA
> HDD) using the provided installer program.
>
> 4. System drops into a boot prompt during subsequent boots from disk.
> Can't find /boot/zfsloader
> FreeBSD/x86 boot
> Default: zroot/ROOT/default:/boot/kernel/kernel
> boot:
> \
> { repeats all above once }
> boot:
>
> 5. Booting from CD into single user mode works. Gpart shows this:
>
> => 40 976773088 ada0 GPT (466G)
> 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K)
> 1064 984 - free - (492K)
> 2048 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G)
> 4196352 972576768 3 freebsd-zfs (464G)
> 976773120 8 4 - free - (4.0K)
>
>
> How do I get this system to boot? Should I have gone the UFS root
> instead of ZFS? Is that the source of the problem? If so then how to
> I restart the installer?
Try MBR partitioning first (instead of GPT). Installer DVD should boot
when selected from your BIOS boot device selector (F12 during boot or
something like that usually).
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