DragonFly BSD manual install: cannot boot

[Dr. Martin Ivanov]

Hello,  I installed DragonFly version 5.2.2 manually on a non-uefi 10-year old laptop. Unfortunately, when I reboot I get the following message: " Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.3.39 Copyright (C) 1997-2009, Intel Corporation PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel Boot Agent Insert system disk in drive Press any key when ready " I made some internet research and it seems that UEFI boot should be possible also with non-uefi BIOSes. Here follows an exact list of the commands I used to install DragonFly:   gpt create -f da0 gpt add -i0 -s1048576 -t efi da0                          # the 512 MiB efi slice gpt label -i0 -l "EFI system" da0s0 disklabel -r -w da0s0 auto                                   # write a new standard volume label disklabel -e da0s0                                             # add `a: * * MSDOS', to add `a' partition  with fstype FAT covering whole slice gpt add -b1048577 -i1 -s314572800 -t dfly da0  # add the 150 GiB dragonfly GPT partition (slice) gpt label -i1 -l "DragonFly" da0 disklabel -B -r -w da0s1 auto  disklabel64 -e da0s1                               # add                                               a: 1G * 4.2BSD # the boot partition                                                                                                             b: 8G * swap                                                                                                                d: * * HAMMER2 gpt add -i2 da0        # add a GPT partition 2 with type ``OpenBSD'' using the remaining free space on da0 gpt label -i2 -l "OpenBSD" da0 newfs_hammer2 -L ROOT /dev/da0s1d         mount_hammer2 /dev/da0s1d /mnt    newfs /dev/da0s1a              mkdir /mnt/boot mount_ufs /dev/da0s1a /mnt/boot  newfs_msdos /dev/da0s0a                                                 # format the efi partition with FAT # copy file systems cpdup / /mnt                                               # copy the root file system mkdir -p /mnt/EFI/BOOT mount /dev/da0s0a /mnt/EFI/BOOT                             # mount the efi partition cp /boot/boot1.efi /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.EFI               # copy the bootloader to its right place in the efi partition mkdir -p /mnt/EFI/dragonfly cp /boot/boot1.efi /mnt/EFI/dragonfly/dragonfly_x64.efi cpdup /boot /mnt/boot # some system configuration: cd /mnt vi etc/fstab       # add                   /dev/da0s1d / hammer2 rw 1 1                          /dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0                    /dev/da0s1a /boot ufs rw 1 1    vi boot/loader.conf   # add               vfs.root.mountfrom="hammer2:da0s1d" cd umount /mnt/boot umount /mnt reboot I also tried issuing: disklabel -B da0s0 but this did not change anything. Thank you very much for your attention. I am looking forward to your replies.