On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 20:43:33 +0200 Toomas Soome tsoome_at_me.com said > > On 8. Nov 2019, at 20:34, Chris <bsd-lists_at_BSDforge.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:32:25 +0100 gljennjohn_at_gmail.com > > <mailto:gljennjohn_at_gmail.com> said > > > >> On Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:41:01 -0800 > >> Chris <bsd-lists_at_BSDforge.com> 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-CURRE > >> > NT is? > >> > IOW I attempted in early October to install each of the (13-CURRENT) > > instal > >> > l > >> > images available. Both on a 500Gb disk, and a 1Tb disk. All w/o success. > > In > >> > desperation, I settled for the then (most recent) RELENG-12. 12 installed > >> > as all previous FreeBSD installs have done successfully. > >> > So something in (recent) 13' boot layout has changed. I can boot > > Legacy/UEF > >> > I/GPT > >> > on 12. But cannot boot at all in recent 13. > >> > > >> I noticed that your 12 disk has Stripesize: 0 on all partitions > >> but 13 has Stripesize: 4096 on all partitions. > >> My bootable 13 disk has Stripesize: 0 on all partitions. > >> Whether that is the cause of your problem I can't say. > > > > Thanks for the reply, Gary. > > Toomas also had some valuable input on my problem booting 13. > > In any case. I used the installer to create the disk layout. I didn't > > do anything different than I have for many years installing FreeBSD from > > the install sources. What puzzles me, is that RELENG-12 creates a > > bootable install, whereas 13-CURRENT won't. > > I've manually setup disks innumerable times in the past. I'll see > > if doing so produces bootable media doing it from a 13-CURRENT live > > DVD, or MEMSTICK, and report my findings. > > > > Thanks again for taking the time to reply, Gary. > >> > > Did you manage to check what is in your efi (ESP) partition? Also, can you > confirm if your system is set to boot in BIOS or UEFI mode? Note this may be > tricky to figure, for example my AMI bios depends on which device is set for > boot device. Also for UEFI boot, we do not support secure boot. Thanks for the reminder. It appears that the installer didn't *format* the ESP/EFI partition. Following are the results of my investigation -- I'm also attaching a copy of the session, should it be easier to read. Script started on Fri Nov 8 11:04:11 2019 root_at_thirteen:~ # root_at_thirteen:~ # ls -la /dev/gpt/ total 1 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 7 00:54 . dr-xr-xr-x 15 root wheel 512 Nov 6 16:54 .. crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x8e Nov 7 00:54 throot crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x91 Nov 7 00:54 thswap crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x96 Nov 7 00:54 thusr crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x93 Nov 7 00:54 thvar crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x99 Nov 7 00:54 thxtra crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x72 Nov 6 16:54 troot crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x75 Nov 7 00:54 tswap crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x7a Nov 6 16:54 tusr crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x77 Nov 6 16:54 tvar crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x7d Nov 6 16:54 txtra root_at_thirteen:~ # mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada0p1 /mnt root_at_thirteen:~ # ls -la /mnt/ total 21 drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Jan 1 1980 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 1024 Nov 7 00:54 .. drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Apr 12 2016 EFI root_at_thirteen:~ # ls -la /mnt/EFI/ total 17 drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Apr 12 2016 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Jan 1 1980 .. drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Apr 12 2016 BOOT root_at_thirteen:~ # ls -la /mnt/EFI/BOOT/ total 130 drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Apr 12 2016 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Apr 12 2016 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 131072 Apr 12 2016 BOOTX64.EFI -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Apr 12 2016 STARTUP.NSH root_at_thirteen:~ # umount /mnt/ root_at_thirteen:~ # mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada1p1 /mnt mount_msdosfs: /dev/ada1p1: Invalid argument root_at_thirteen:~ # ls /dev/ada* /dev/ada0 /dev/ada0p2 /dev/ada0p4 /dev/ada0p6 /dev/ada1p1 /dev/ada1p3 /dev/ada1p5 /dev/ada0p1 /dev/ada0p3 /dev/ada0p5 /dev/ada1 /dev/ada1p2 /dev/ada1p4 /dev/ada1p6 root_at_thirteen:~ # mount /dev/ada1p1 /mnt/ mount: /dev/ada1p1: No such file or directory root_at_thirteen:~ # exit exit Script done on Fri Nov 8 11:09:35 2019 Thanks again! --Chris > > rgds, > toomas
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