From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed May 6 09:56:26 2020 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 A78B713E148 for ; Wed, 6 May 2020 09:56:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from mail.kukulies.org (mail.kukulies.org [116.203.115.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49HBnP68plz4QTv for ; Wed, 6 May 2020 09:56:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kukulies.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1959510276A for ; Wed, 6 May 2020 11:56:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.kukulies.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.kukulies.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZNaOps4ipBUe for ; Wed, 6 May 2020 11:56:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from christophs-mbp.fritz.box (p57A1FCC2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.161.252.194]) by mail.kukulies.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AA4A3102769 for ; Wed, 6 May 2020 11:56:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Christoph Kukulies Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.4 \(3608.80.23.2.2\)) Subject: SSD woes - boot Message-Id: <28BC0AA1-FF58-406A-A5EE-FB0641D2C2B5@kukulies.org> Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 11:56:24 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.80.23.2.2) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49HBnP68plz4QTv X-Spamd-Bar: ++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of kuku@kukulies.org has no SPF policy when checking 116.203.115.43) smtp.mailfrom=kuku@kukulies.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [2.40 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.02)[-0.023,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[kukulies.org]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.64)[0.636,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:116.203.0.0/16, country:DE]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(0.29)[ipnet: 116.203.0.0/16(2.95), asn: 24940(-1.50), country: DE(-0.02)]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[194.252.161.87.khpj7ygk5idzvmvt5x4ziurxhy.zen.dq.spamhaus.net : 127.0.0.10] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.30 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 09:56:26 -0000 Since yesterday, when I ran smartcontrol against my drives - don=E2=80=99t= know whether it has to do with that but I=E2=80=99m mentioning it just = FWIW - my Kingston 240 GB SSD suddenly was no longer visible in the ASRock = MB=E2=80=992 BIOS. (ASRock939A790GMH). Strange, isn=E2=80=99t it, that a power fail or unclean = shutdown/dismount can cause the drive being no longer visible to the = BIOS. To test whether it was still alive, I took it out of the system, put it = into an ICY box and connected it to a FreeBSD (11) VM I have running = under Parallels on my MacbookPro. It got recognized on the USB bus and after I ran an fsck against it and = put it back into the BIOS, it was recognized again. So far so good. But now, due to some misordering in the hard disk = numbering scheme in the BIOS I can=E2=80=99t aim at the right partition = to boot.=20 With the old F1/F5 bootload of FreeBSD it always boots the wrong = partition .=20 Is there a better bootloader available which offers me a larger choice, = that eventually finds all bootable partitions on all disks in the = system? =E2=80=94 Christoph