2015/05/20 17:28 "David Coppa" <dco...@gmail.com>: > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > besides take it back to the store, I mean. > > > > I have it booted on a USB stick. The internal drive appears to be > > unpartitioned when I do a disklabel -- only c partition reported. fdisk > > does report it as EFI GPT. > > > > I read something about support in the kernel. Is there any hope of say, > > constructing a disklabel by hand and copying the file system over by hand? > > (I have opened up an empty "simple" partition on the disk already.) > > You could try with a custom kernel compiled with the GPT option turned on. > GPT support is currently commented out (see > src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC), but it may work...
I don't have the machine to do a custom kernel, so, I had the MSWindOS make the recovery disks and checked that it would do the recovery. It allows a "minimum" install, which is a lot more responsive. :-/ And now it will disappear. Now I'm doing an ordinary "legacy" style install. That should give me an environment to build a custom kernel as you suggest. TBC. Would appreciate additional pointers. > Ciao, > David > -- > "If you try a few times and give up, you'll never get there. But if > you keep at it... There's a lot of problems in the world which can > really be solved by applying two or three times the persistence that > other people will." > -- Stewart Nelson
