Re: CURRENT October images do not create a bootable install

On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 20:09:12 +0200 Toomas Soome tsoome_at_me.com said

> > On 7. Nov 2019, at 19:37, Chris.H <chris.h_at_ultimatedns.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 17:28:16 +0200 Toomas Soome tsoome_at_me.com said
> > 
> >> > On 7. Nov 2019, at 17:23, Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > >> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 09:49:52 +0100 gljennjohn_at_gmail.com said
> >> >> I chose GPT.
> >> > > Maybe whoever wrote the EFI/BIOS code in your machine went all-in on
> >> > "Legacy", and it only handles MBR disks (or disks < 2.2TB)?
> >> > After all, it seems like "not booting" would be a standards-compliant
> >> > way for a classic BIOS to handle a GPT disk.
> >> > if your system is not booting from GPT disk, it means it is not standards
> >> compliant.
> > Interesting. So then RELENG-12 is not "Standards" compliant. While 13-CURRENT
> > is?
> 
> 
> Can not tell if you do not provide actual information, we can not really tell
> too much. However, based on the partition tables below, I can tell a bit.
> 
> Those disks are using GPT, there is EFI partition, which does suggest UEFI
> boot and not BIOS boot. There is no freebsd-boot partition, meaning the
> standard pmbr boot block does not work (if installed) — pmbr does search
> for freebsd-boot and will load its content and jumps on it. Without seeing
> your sector 0, I can not tell what code is there (if any), and based on
> partitions on that system, it is possible the BIOS boot is not installed at
> all. In a similar way, without seeing EFI partition content, we can not tell
> if UEFI boot is actually installed - EFI partition should have FAT file
> system with specific directory tree.
> 
> To make things better, the exact description would be helpful, so the devs
> taking care of installer could review the information and make fixes.

Right. Sorry. I forgot you had asked for the output of dd(1).

I've done so, and will send you the output directly (off list).

Thank you!
> 
> rgds,
> toomas
> 
> 
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--Chris