cannot boot from HDD

[John Baldwin]

On Monday, October 24, 2011 12:34:57 pm Alexandr wrote:
> 24.10.2011 16:46, John Baldwin пишет:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Yes, I have updated BIOS to the latest version, but no success. I found 
> similar threads at freebsd forum:

Hmmm, is the 0xee partition marked "active" in your MBR (if you look at the
disk with fdisk for example).

-- 
John Baldwin