Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, John wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:34:10PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 19 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:35:21 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: [..] OK! Well! Good news! After a sort. I

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:27:56AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:09:50AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:27:56AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:01:02AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:09:50AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:27:56AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote:

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread John
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:35:21PM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:01:02AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:09:50AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:27:56AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread Tim Judd
SNIP OK - my current best theory is that if the Standard boot manager is faced with anything other than exactly 1 bootable slice (partition to it), it defaults to Invalid partition table. I'll bet anyone lunch that this is true. Any takers? I've read before: the standard bootloader

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:35:21PM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:01:02AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:09:50AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:27:56AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri,

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 19 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:35:21 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: [..] OK! Well! Good news! After a sort. I switched to BootMgr, and it came right up with 8.0! Slight downside - extra prompt during boot, and of

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:34:10PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 19 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:35:21 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: [..] OK! Well! Good news! After a sort. I switched to BootMgr, and it came right up with