No bootable device

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Eric L. Camachat wrote:

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> On 08/09/2014 10:32, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>>
>> the installed systems are not bootable , and the last sentence on the
>> screen is the following :
>>
>>
>> No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key
>>
>
> If you installed into GPT partitions like this:
> $ gpart show ada0
> =>       34  488397101  ada0  GPT  (233G)
>         34       1038     1  freebsd-boot  (519K)
>       1072  455081984     2  freebsd-ufs  (217G)
>  455083056   33314079     3  freebsd-swap  (16G)
>
> Try to make GPT in MBR as bootable (active) partition:
> $ fdisk -s /dev/ada0
> /dev/ada0: 484521 cyl 16 hd 63 sec
> Part        Start        Size Type Flags
>   1:           1   488397167 0xee 0x80
> $ fdisk -p /dev/ada0
> # /dev/ada0
> g c484521 h16 s63
> p 1 0xee 1 488397167
> a 1
>
> This is an known issue on HP laptops.

The simpler version is
   gpart set -a active ada0

There are multiple possible issues.  This one is due to strict 
compliance with the GPT standard.

Another problem is when a BIOS system does weird things based on an MBR
partition type.  Some Lenovo systems do that.  When that is the problem, 
using MBR partitioning rather than the PMBR from GPT can work.