Efi/mbr freebsd-11.0-RELEASE-p9 unbootable
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 17:17:31 UTC 2017
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Heikki Lindholm
<holindho at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
> On 14.04.2017 05:38, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>
>> Dear freebsd users,
>>
>> I got a used toshiba-laptop with windows 7. A friend of mine gave me a
>> new
>> hard drive and we installed void-linux with a 1GB /boot partition, an 8 GB
>> swap partitionx and a 100GB / for the install. Installation suceeded, but
>> grub install failed some ttx? Error. I then got a regular x86_64 amd
>> freebsd 11.0 RELEASE and installed it sucessfully as well. I did not get
>> questioned to install bootloader. When booting the machine tries to boot
>> off the network. I get a supergrubdisk and boot off it and I am able to
>> run freebsd-update on it get it to -p9 and install pkgs that I want to
>> run. I am not very fond of secure boot and I had installed linux on
>> another machine with windows 7 and it supposedly had EFI support, however
>> when grub installed, i lost the ability to boot into windows. In this
>> machine a toshiba satellite laptop, I tried to play it safe and instead
>> cannot boot either void-linux or freebsd from the hard drive. I can boot
>> into freebsd with supergrubdisk, i don't believe it is a question of EFI
>> because I had previously installed DragonflyBSD 4.8 which has support for
>> EFI and I selected it as well, but the system was unbootable as well. How
>> should I troubleshoot this? I can boot from live media, but I cannot
>> install grub or the freebsd bootloader. Hard drive is 465 GB, with the
>> above mentioned linux partitions, the rest for freebsd with ufs. If there
>> is a how to, or a laptop wiki on this topic, I appreciate all your help
>> even if it would be recommended that I reinstall the OS again from
>> scratch. I am confused with GPT vs old style MBR which just worked TM by
>> the way and this secure boot crap which renders our machines unbootable.
>
>
> Show the output of gpart show ada0 (or whatever your disk is) for better
> guesswork to begin. You might need to (1) disable secure boot, (2) enable
> bios emulation, (3) install FreeBSD (and linux) with the BIOS/MBR booter
> instead of EFI.
>
> Regards,
> Heikki Lindholm
>
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Before taking out a hammer and nuking everything, I will show what
output of gpart:
root at toshiba-f104:~ # gpart show ada0
=> 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (466G)
34 2014 - free - (1.0M)
2048 2097152 1 linux-data (1.0G)
2099200 16777216 2 linux-swap (8.0G)
18876416 209715200 3 linux-data (100G)
228591616 1024 4 freebsd-boot (512K)
228592640 740293624 5 freebsd-ufs (353G)
968886264 7886870 6 freebsd-swap (3.8G)
976773134 1 - free - (512B)
root at toshiba-f104:~ #
I use SUPER GRUB DISK to boot. I check the linux-data and it should
be linux /boot which is ext2 partition, just that grub failed to
install. If I try stuff out and it does not work, then I will just
give it back to my friend. I check the bios, I cannot find the
secure boot option to disable it :( Any pointers and suggestions
before I take out the hammer or give up and give it back to my friend.
Laptop is a SATELLITE L775-S7135 which should be supported.
Best Regards,
Antonio
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