cannot boot from HDD
Alexandr
shuriku at shurik.kiev.ua
Mon Oct 24 16:34:28 UTC 2011
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:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=26304
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=26759
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