I went to install 11.1 yesterday

[scratch65535 at att.net]

You're right, it was half my mistake.   

This motherboard's bios has a switch for EFI, legacy, and both.
The factory setting was both, and, after defaulting to EFI, the
installer evidently  didn't know how to back up and try again
when it found an MBR partition.  I'll report the bug.

I may have to have another go at Ubuntu -- perhaps it didn't know
how to back up either.

Thanks for the tipoff!


[Default] On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:05:29 +0000, Manish Jain
<bourne.identity at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>On 08/20/17 17:20, scratch65535 at att.net wrote:
>> discovered that, like Linux (or at
>> least Ubuntu) 11 doesn't support MBR
>
>
>Hi,
>
>There must be some misunderstanding here. Both Linux as well as FreeBSD 
>11 fully support MBR. I have installed 11 as well as 12-current using MBR.
>
>I do not know what leads you to that conclusion. If you could tell 
>precisely what you tried, perhaps someone will point out the actual 
>problem for your system.
>
>I have a cheat-sheet for troubleshooting FreeBSD installation when 
>things are not going right :
>
>1) Disable UEFI in the BIOS and force your disks to be presented as 
>Legacy devices
>
>2) Boot from optical media installer, not USB
>
>3) If using UFS, prefer MBR partitioning. For ZFS, be prepared to devote 
>a whole disk partitioned GPT.
>
>Could you please fill in some details after trying my suggestions above ?
>
>Regards
>Manish Jain