UEFI cd boots, what it installs doesn't

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 11 15:18:00 UTC 2014


On 09/11/14 07:42, John wrote:
> Hello Currents,
>
> I grabbed FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20140903-r270990-disc1.iso, burned
> it to disk then booted from it. It boots up fine, and it goes through
> the install routine fine. The problem is, after the install is finished,
> when I try to boot the installed system, it gives me the option to
> select 0 or 1. Whatever I select, I get a flashing cursor then nothing.
> If I leave it at nothing eventually the bios asks what the problem is.
>
> What am I doing wrong? The board is an Asus Z87-PRO and the disks are
> Hitatchi 3TB drives. I'm trying to install to ad1, ad0 is a SSD. I've
> tried ad0 ad2 and ad3 to no avail.
>
> PC-BSD will install if the default options are chosen. It installs GRUB.
> Ubuntu 14 and Mint 17 also install. I don't want pc-bsd because it
> imposes zfs, all I need is freebsd with ufs and gconcat and also /var
> and /tmp on the ssd.
>
> thanks,

Can you test the memstick image? That uses the same bootblocks as an 
installed system.
-Nathan


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