Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your trying to help me. On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James E. Pace wrote: > >> I bought an HP Pavilion p7-1597c [1] system last week. It is Intel Core >> i5-3330, with a Seagate 1.5 TB SATA drive and 12 GB of memory, shipped with >> Windows 8. [...] >> I am able to complete the install of FreeBSD 9.1/amd64 from the CD without >> any problems. However, when I attempt to boot, it doesn't. [...] >> After an install, I get to the boot0 (the F1 boot menu thing) screen, but >> when it tries to boot, it prints "#" and doesn't boot. When trying to >> share the disk with Windows, mostly I'd get boot errors about not having a >> bootable device (ERROR: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has >> failed.).
> boot0 is the multi-boot loader. I'm reasonably sure it will not work on a > GPT disk. GPT needs the PMBR loader. This should be correctable by using > the Shell option of the install disk: > # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0 > > The installer would write that by default on a blank disk. I don't know what > it does when partitions are added to a GPT disk. For that matter, I'm not > sure how you got boot0 on there. boot0 must have been installed when I did MBR partitioning, and/or PCBSD did it? > If there is nothing on the disk to lose, I would start from scratch by going > to the shell from the installer: > # gpart destroy -F ada0 > > Return to the installer, and it should find the entire disk unpartitioned. I booted the 9.1 install CD, executed "gpart destroy -F ada0", and installed. After completing the install, boot fails with: ERROR: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed. I booted the install CD again, and executed: # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0 and rebooted. I got the same error: ERROR: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed. > If you really want to multi-boot, reinstall Windows 8. The Windows ship has sailed -- the system didn't come with media, and the install has been removed. So, I'm committed. :) Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks, James _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
