"Invalid partition table" on 10-stable.

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 09/21/14 06:46, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Nathan Whitehorn 
> <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org <mailto:nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>> wrote:
>
>     Could you describe the exact problem here so that we can fix the
>     installer? If this is the mark one partition active thing, I'm not
>     sure we can change that, since there are also systems *that* breaks.
>
>
> I'm not sure I can describe the *exact* problem, since I don't 
> completely understand it.  What I can say that if I put the laptop 
> into legacy-boot mode and mark the partition active, it boots.  If I 
> put it into UEFI boot mode and install, even if I install the pmbr and 
> mark it active, the BIOS doesn't find it.  This is a bit different 
> message from the earlier one I quoted, it's a set of messages clearly 
> from the BIOS claiming that it can't find a boot partition; I can 
> reproduce it and quote it exactly if it would help.  It also offers 
> ways to go to Setup, retry the boot or run diagnostics.  Marking the 
> partition inactive doesn't help, in fact I couldn't figure out any way 
> to make it detect the partition.  In the BIOS, where you choose UEFI, 
> it has a search function.  In legacy mode it finds all the possible 
> boot devices, but in UEFI it claims, IIRC, that it can't find an 
> operating system and produces no list of potential boot devices.
>
> This is on a Dell Precision M6800, as I said before.  If you have any 
> more questions, feel free to ask.
> -- 
> Frank Mayhar
> fmayhar at gmail.com <mailto:fmayhar at gmail.com>

One more: can you boot the UEFI memstick image in UEFI mode? There's a 
possible misfeature in the firmware I want to check for.
-Nathan