From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 08:00:37 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7522106566C for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:00:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomdean@speakeasy.org) Received: from asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net [207.145.128.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79BC48FC15 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.49]) by asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A63FCA712D7 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 03:00:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 6414 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2011 08:00:35 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 15821, pid: 1784, t: 0.2941s scanners: clamav: 0.88.2/m:52/d:10739 spam: 3.0.4 Received: from 24-113-112-30.wavecable.com (HELO [192.168.2.2]) (tomdean@[24.113.112.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 5 Dec 2011 08:00:34 -0000 From: "Thomas D. Dean" To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Home Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:34 -0800 Message-ID: <1323072034.14453.16.camel@asus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail5.sea5 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=8.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.0.4 Cc: Subject: Install Problems on ASUS P9X79 GPT X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tomdean@speakeasy.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:00:37 -0000 I have an ASUS P9X79 motherboard, i7-3939K, 16G Ram, 2x WD5000AAKX 500G SATA III Disks, USB wireless mouse and keyboard, etc. I have been fooling with this for two days and not making a lot of progress. Lots of google time and seemingly random installs... The BIOS is UEFI and wants a GPT disk. I have the latest BIOS. I have windows 7 on the 2nd disk, for some reason it could not be installed to the first disk - strange. I tried FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) and could not get past the partition editor. After a few key strokes, BSDInstall stopped responding. I did manage to get Ubuntu to install and dual boot with windows, although on the first disk. I missed the selection of disk, etc., if offered... What I want is Disk Size Part OS 1 100G 1,2 Windows 7 (for warranty issues) 1 50G 3,4 Some version of linux (porting code to FreeBSD) 1 350G 5,6,7,etc. FreeBSD 8.2 (daily use) I plan to manually install FreeBSD 8.2. Use gpart to create the partitions n / 2G n+1 swap 32G n+2 /var 2G n+3 /tmp 2G n+4 /usr 310G+ Mount the partitions down from /mnt and manually install all the parts of 8.2 RELEASE from the DVD. The second disk will be used for backup and data. I may track -current here... If I can get ubuntu to install on partitions 3 and 4, then update-grub should find all the OS's and boot should work. What am I missing? tomdean