Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:07:26 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Steven Friedrich <steven.e.friedrich@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 10.0 to GPT volume Message-ID: <CAHHBGkq_1mDzc=heVVNCZhd%2BGxu65ip3ZvTJFYo=8tD1-=eDng@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <002901cf487c$a5a2fae0$f0e8f0a0$@Gmail.com> References: <002901cf487c$a5a2fae0$f0e8f0a0$@Gmail.com>
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On 25 March 2014 18:50, Steven Friedrich <steven.e.friedrich@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. If nothing gpart(8) works, I would use bios partitions, followed by joining a convent, followed by eating a live toad, followed by installing to an EFI $THINGY. (Yes, I have installed to an EFI scheme on an old macbook, & I will be happy to not do that again, soon) Also, if you have any experience at all with using a unix-like command line, I would advise skipping the special installers & using something akin to: https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?&t=10334 (caveat: I don't use zfs, so I don't care about that part, further that under 10.0 on the DVD the base install packages live in a different place, specifically under $DVD_ROOT/usr/freebsd-dist/ (& no, it doesn't make sense to me either, but there it is)) wblock's gpart instructions are clear, succinct, & do work: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html -- --
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