From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 23:07:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52FBCDB0 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:07:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-x22a.google.com (mail-pb0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2C80D138 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:07:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f42.google.com with SMTP id rr13so1108615pbb.29 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:07:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=sfdydREedY7Mixx+40gsWG8TeutQqkZ01iTFAfAbPKo=; b=PIcVQCqvQ0EvllB96GdwE4/62llPsjc1in27H8nA3s7yvKREvFQJcmfe1HCf6M0IZ0 X31Qkp5Xtu9/uzBCGTNL8sh3sw6c0is4cgG/VlrHtjoj4WDar8Y33w08EaGrxG2LRWn7 ukQVNQrjvnW9ExazpxQKXYGa9Kagg1KfHqTGL4rR/gTigdOTP4psXyw6peaIBL4T866x rYVTEYYDbQdjXBgUCzxdK9rTUZ7VCJNwLWPwkaz5tDqMBNLffPMLDULDomA5dgL4cHSV 1/Tmle4FEjwccKDLzS6sbC9OEnwn9od7ggM3XtrzjsyGCyQ9EelCyuMoEWsqd3SqgFXw PE4A== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.171.193 with SMTP id aw1mr81725020pbc.117.1395788846817; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:07:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.150.41 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:07:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <002901cf487c$a5a2fae0$f0e8f0a0$@Gmail.com> References: <002901cf487c$a5a2fae0$f0e8f0a0$@Gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:07:26 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 10.0 to GPT volume From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Steven Friedrich Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:07:27 -0000 On 25 March 2014 18:50, Steven Friedrich 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 -- --