On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:32:25 +0100 gljennj...@gmail.com said
On Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:41:01 -0800
Chris <bsd-li...@bsdforge.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 17:28:16 +0200 Toomas Soome tso...@me.com said
>
> > > On 7. Nov 2019, at 17:23, Daniel Nebdal <dneb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 09:49:52 +0100 gljennj...@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.
[snip gpart output]
--
Gary Jennejohn
--Chris
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