cannot boot from HDD

[John Baldwin]

On Friday, October 21, 2011 4:35:12 am Alexandr wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> A few weeks ago I have migrated to a new laptop Lenovo B570 and I cannot 
> boot from my HDD. At the start of the boot process HDD led blinks some 
> times and boot continues from Network PXE. Bootloader from 8-RELEASE, 
> 9-STABLE, and 10-CURRENT connot solve this issue.
> I am using a GPT scheme on my laptop:
> 
> lenovo-b570# gpart show
> =>       34  976773101  ada0  GPT  (465G)
>           34        128     1  freebsd-boot  (64k)
>          162  976772973     2  freebsd-zfs  (465G)
> 
> Now to boot my system I am using boottable usb-flash with Grub2 
> installed. Choosing boot from HDD mbr starts boot my system.
> I discussed this problem in our local mailing list, but no success.
> The only way I see to resolve my problem at this time is to use such scheme:
> 
> bios-boot (with Grub2)
> freebsd-boot
> freebsd-zfs

Hmm, sounds like your BIOS doesn't like the PMBR and doesn't try to boot from 
it as a result.  Have you tried updating your BIOS?  From a quick search it
seems even Windows can't boot from GPT on this box, but that a BIOS update
might fix that.

-- 
John Baldwin