Can't boot FreeBSD.

[Paul Kraus]

On Aug 9, 2015, at 18:46, reg at dwf.com wrote:

> I have done what appears to be a clean install of FreeBSD 10.1,
> but on the 'reboot' the intel boot falls thru to the ethernet
> boot, as if there isn't any info in the boot block.

By clean install I assume you mean you went through the installer process to it’s completion.

What did you choose for disk layout (UFS, ZFS, or manual) ? 

If you used the manual option you may have missed a step to install the boot loader. Take a look at the man page for gpart and the section on BOOTSTRAPPING here https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gpart&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+10.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html and the examples at the end.

> I have tried this install on two different disks on this machine
> with the same results (changing the BIOS to get to the 2nd disk).

I had an older system that would not boot with a GPT partition, I had to use an MBR partition (I was using ZFS for boot drive).

I have also had others report that they needed to set the BIOS to Legacy for SATA controllers instead of AHCI in some cases.

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Paul Kraus
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