"Invalid partition table" on 10-stable.

[Frank Mayhar]

Hans Ottevanger <hans <at> beastielabs.net> writes:
> In my situation I can get the installation working by booting single 
> user from an older FreeBSD install CD (9.2R in my case) and reinstall 
> the MBR as follows:
> 
> /sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada0
> 
> Probably gpart changed the way it installs the MBR, but I think it is 
> very board (or maybe BIOS) specific: other systems do not have the issue.
> 
> Please let me know if this "trick" helps for you.

I did install the pmbr during the initial setup, as well as the bootstrap 
itself.  I do plan to try the "set active partition" trick suggested 
elsewhere.
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Frank Mayhar
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