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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:51:55 -0700
From:      Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@gmail.com>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "Invalid partition table" on 10-stable.  Solved.  Ish.
Message-ID:  <1411149115.92654.10.camel@jill.exit.com>
In-Reply-To: <541C607A.5000407@freebsd.org>
References:  <1411013471.25791.52.camel@jill.exit.com> <1411127384.92654.9.camel@jill.exit.com>  <541C607A.5000407@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 09:57 -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 09/19/14 04:49, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> > Well, I got it going.  In fact, when I got home last night I found that
> > it was sitting there running FreeBSD off the disk.  After some
> > experimentation, I found that I had left it in legacy boot mode after
> > strictly following the instructions in the above web page.  And I think
> > I had set the MBR to active, although I can't really remember.
> >
> > Even with that hack, however, UEFI just plain didn't work.  It didn't
> > find the bootable partition; when I tried to get it to look for it it
> > claimed "Operating System not found" or something along those lines.  It
> > may well be looking for Windows only, I guess.
> >
> > Fortunately I can live with legacy boot.  I reinstalled that way,
> > following a slightly-modified version of the ZFS-root instructions
> > above, and I'm installing ports as I write this.
> >
> > So, notwithstanding the lack of UEFI support, success!
> 
> Did you have secure boot enabled?

No, definitely not.
-- 
Frank Mayhar
frank@exit.com




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