Ok, went back to my 8.0-RELEASE memstick image and after playing with the GPT settings a little and dd'ing all zeros to the disk first, I get a little farther this time. I'm seeing the following: ----------------------------- BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS 631kB/1832448kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0 (root_at_, Wed Feb 17 10:27:40 UTC 2010) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x8924d8 ----------------------------- And that's as far as it gets. Per the handbook, that appears to be stuck somewhere between boot2 and /boot/loader. To me, it looks like it's having a problem loading the kernel. As far as my suspicion of the BIOS not correctly reporting the drives, it looks to me like the bootloader is seeing them so maybe that can be ruled out. I'm glad to see it get farther this time but this is still weird. Any ideas on this one? Thanks, Chris On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Chris <behrnetworks_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Doug, > > Haven't tried with different GPT parameters so I guess I could try > that. It's just odd since that same guide worked for me without a > hitch on my desktop machine. I'll try that as well as dd'ing the drive > completely. > > Thanks, > Chris > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Doug Poland <doug_at_polands.org> wrote: >> On 2010-02-16 20:51, Chris wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Chris<behrnetworks_at_gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Scot, >>>> >> If you're following the wiki, then you're using GPT partitions and geom >> labels, yes? Have you, by chance, tried the install with different GPT >> partition sizes, indexes, or labels? >> >> The reason I ask is I recently had an 8.0-STABLE box on which I installed >> ZFS root on RAIDZ1, then I decided to change my GPT and re-install. I could >> not get it to boot from ZFS until I dd'd *all* the drives (completely, not >> just the first few MB), and started the entire installation from scratch. >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Doug >> >Received on Wed Feb 17 2010 - 14:46:21 UTC
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