Invalid partition table

[jd1008]

On 11/25/2014 02:40 PM, Bastian wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just started to run 10.1-RELEASE on a physical box - a Latitude E6330.
> Herein I face some troubles in contrast to the VM installations I had by
> now.
>
> I use zfs on root with GPT a partition table. Installation went fine.
> But when booting up, a message is prompted: "Invalid partition table!"
>
> When I hit enter a slash '/' appears two lines above .. and a second hit
> on enter eventually starts the FreeBSD bootloader. This behaviour sound
> quite weired to me.
>
> Could you give me somehints on that?
>
>
> -----
> root at zam709 ~ 1
> 103 # gpart list
> Geom name: ada0
> modified: false
> state: OK
> fwheads: 16
> fwsectors: 63
> last: 500118158
> first: 34
> entries: 128
> scheme: GPT
> Providers:
> 1. Name: ada0p1
>     Mediasize: 524288 (512K)
>     Sectorsize: 512
>     Stripesize: 0
>     Stripeoffset: 17408
>     Mode: r0w0e0
>     rawuuid: 95c86038-71b0-11e4-99be-f01faf034705
>     rawtype: 83bd6b9d-7f41-11dc-be0b-001560b84f0f
>     label: gptboot0
>     length: 524288
>     offset: 17408
>     type: freebsd-boot
>     index: 1
>     end: 1057
>     start: 34
> 2. Name: ada0p2
>     Mediasize: 2147483648 (2.0G)
>     Sectorsize: 512
>     Stripesize: 0
>     Stripeoffset: 541696
>     Mode: r1w1e2
>     rawuuid: 95cc569e-71b0-11e4-99be-f01faf034705
>     rawtype: 516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
>     label: boot0
>     length: 2147483648
>     offset: 541696
>     type: freebsd-zfs
>     index: 2
>     end: 4195361
>     start: 1058
> 3. Name: ada0p3
>     Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G)
>     Sectorsize: 512
>     Stripesize: 0
>     Stripeoffset: 2148025344
>     Mode: r1w1e1
>     rawuuid: 95d29252-71b0-11e4-99be-f01faf034705
>     rawtype: 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
>     label: swap0
>     length: 8589934592
>     offset: 2148025344
>     type: freebsd-swap
>     index: 3
>     end: 20972577
>     start: 4195362
> 4. Name: ada0p4
>     Mediasize: 245322537472 (228G)
>     Sectorsize: 512
>     Stripesize: 0
>     Stripeoffset: 2148025344
>     Mode: r1w1e1
>     rawuuid: 95d7730d-71b0-11e4-99be-f01faf034705
>     rawtype: 516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
>     label: zfs0
>     length: 245322537472
>     offset: 10737959936
>     type: freebsd-zfs
>     index: 4
>     end: 500118158
>     start: 20972578
> Consumers:
> 1. Name: ada0
>     Mediasize: 256060514304 (238G)
>     Sectorsize: 512
>     Mode: r3w3e7
> -----
>
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
Problems reports like this have made me think twice about installing
FBSD on a GPT partitioned drive with zfs boot partition.

I will stick to plain msdos paritioning, and plain ffs boot partition.