Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 08:06:11 -0700 From: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> To: "D'Arcy Cain" <darcy@druid.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation of 12.1R and 11.3R fails Message-ID: <CAEC7393R4meR0vei92RqA8VZZ7NidtJ0zkObbFmg7d1nXChNiA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7230ccba-340f-5769-305a-b77e6c03b9d0@druid.net> References: <CAEC7393CTQGQ=zQ7fM63iSkpdvO8R0q-q6iLWUOx4=XaYanO1A@mail.gmail.com> <d760435a-af0d-8a84-b350-43311c8e321e@holgerdanske.com> <CAEC73938_0co-Sk3JzZz10gP%2BVg6%2Bk1jWj87KJbU3_XkLU2Spg@mail.gmail.com> <7230ccba-340f-5769-305a-b77e6c03b9d0@druid.net>
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The MBR boot after wiping the disk was successful. YAY, Beasties! TYVM for all the advice. :D Taking your thought to heart, D'Arcy, I'm going to try again with GPT now that Linux is gone, gone, gone! :D On 5/23/20, D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net> wrote: > On 2020-05-23 00:43, Donald Wilde wrote: >> I will try using MBR instead of GPT, as you suggest. I did that once >> the first time and no joy. Other than that and using the USB instead >> of DVD, the only other delta in your procedure is zeroing the disk and >> ensuring that all settings in BIOS are set to default. > > This is exactly what I found when going from Linux to FreeBSD. Just run > dd(1) with input file /dev/zero on the raw disk before starting your > installation. You have to completely wipe out the Linux boot blocks. > > -- > D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves > http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on > +1 416 788 2246 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. > IM: darcy@VybeNetworks.com, VoIP: sip:darcy@druid.net > > -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * ****************************************************
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