Hello, good Beasties - It is my pleasure to be back! Please pardon my direct usage of -STABLE instead of -questions, but I remember the deluge that -questions brought to my in-box... ;-) I am trying to re-establish a FreeBSD presence on my servers and I am having problems installing it on my development laptop. I'm using 12.1R, installed via the bootonly.iso DVD. This is a hardwired Dell generic i3 laptop, which has successfully been running Linux. The installation -- whole disk, AUTO, GPT, all options selected -- downloads everything and appears to match all checksums and complete successfully but when I reboot, it goes immediately into the PXE boot, failing with no DHCP success. I've tried both Legacy and UEFI BIOS mode and it refuses to recognize the hard drive and installation either way. I have tried both 11.3 and 12.1 releases, but have no joy. I have reviewed the errata and I don't see anything describing this major a problem. I didn't see anything in the booting sections of the Handbook, either. I did see one entry in a DuckDuckGo search that said I should use gpartd to associate my ada0 partition with boot0 but I cannot find that listing again. I thought I was using every automatic option possible, but I seem to have missed something. What am I missing? What can I try? -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * ****************************************************
21.05.2020 8:23, Donald Wilde wrote:> The installation -- whole disk, AUTO, GPT, all options selected -- > downloads everything and appears to match all checksums and complete > successfully but when I reboot, it goes immediately into the PXE boot, > failing with no DHCP success. I've tried both Legacy and UEFI BIOS > mode and it refuses to recognize the hard drive and installation > either way.It seems your BIOS does not boot OS from GPT normally. Try using MBR partitioning instead with Legacy mode. And/or apply BIOS/UEFI firmware updates, if any. You could also try 11.4-RC2 image as it contains come compatibility fixes for booting issues like yours.
> 21.05.2020 8:23, Donald Wilde wrote: > > The installation -- whole disk, AUTO, GPT, all options selected --Thank you, Eugene --> > > It seems your BIOS does not boot OS from GPT normally. > > > Try using MBR partitioning instead with Legacy mode.Yes, that did work. It likes the MBR partitioning and Legacy mode. Nothing I have done with GPT has worked. I'm currently sitting on 12-STABLE on MBR.> > > And/or apply BIOS/UEFI firmware updates, if any.That's a very good thought. The GPT may not have existed when this laptop was hatched from the primal egg. >8^O I scraped Doze off this system as soon as I got it and it's been running Ubuntu until now. I switched this query to freebsd-questions a while back and I've gotten good help on that thread. Very sorry that you see this one which has been orphaned, but thank you for taking your time to give me assistance!!! :)> > > You could also try 11.4-RC2 image as it contains come compatibility fixes...At this point, I need to get into "use the system for real work" mode so other things are more pressing than redoing it yet again. It's being used as a mule to re-acquaint myself with FreeBSD and as a demonstration system for Yet Another Social Network project for a client. When he gets his money situation squared away to deploy at scale, FreeBSD will probably have a 14-STABLE branch. Time does march on, and thank you for your work with the FreeBSD Project to make that so! :D -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * ****************************************************