mountroot> while booting r255342 memstick

Lundberg, Johannes johannes at brilliantservice.co.jp
Fri Sep 13 02:09:53 UTC 2013


Does it work with the 9.1 image? If it does, you probably have the same
problem as I do with the new Macbook Air.
Optimisations made to the xhci driver causes it to fail. What I've done is
to create a new install image with sys/dev/usb/controller/xhci* reverted
back to 243780.

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On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Nathan Whitehorn
<nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>wrote:

> On 09/11/13 20:42, Uzumaki Naruto wrote:
>
>> If the issue is GPT and MBR, I am quite sure this laptop BIOS doesn't
>>> support GPT disk type, because OEM Acer only gave GPT supported BIOS for
>>> model that pre-loaded with Windows 8.
>>>
>> Maybe it helps to clarify, this laptop got no UEFI firmware, I could
>> convert my hard disk to GPT type using diskpart command, but the
>> functionality to boot from GPT partition is unavailable through BIOS.
>>
>>
> Booting from GPT does not require BIOS support. BIOSes don't (or aren't
> supposed to -- some broken ones do) parse the partition table at all.
> -Nathan
>
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