I decided to try 9-BETA-3 on a 64G Crucial M4. On first pass accepted "Guided" and took the defaults for partitioning. All went well and system installed and ran fine. However, [cmd=]gpart ada0[/cmd] showed that partitions were "not" aligned on 4k boundaries.
From the literature I located it looked like there was a consensus that aligning on 1M boundaries was the way to go. So, in the next install pass, I chose "Shell" from the partition dialog; created 1M aligned: freebsd-boot, freebsd-ufs and freebsd-swap partitions. I then [cmd=]newfs -U /dev/ada0p2[/cmd] [cmd=]mount /dev/ada0p2 /mnt[/cmd] [cmd=]vi /tmp/bsdinstall_etc/fstab[/cmd] (creating entries for / and swap) then finally [cmd=]exit[/cmd]
From there the installation proceeded as in the default install above. But, no joy, would not boot. My new Asus MB w/ EUFI went right past the new install. As well: when I "F8 and selected the new installation drive", no boot was realized.
Questions:
Does this look like it might be an issue with the Asus EUFI BIOS?
Does not the installer load the boot image into the freebsd-boot partion?
If not, where would it be on the install media (memstick.img) so that I may use it to install at creation of the partition.
tia !
From the literature I located it looked like there was a consensus that aligning on 1M boundaries was the way to go. So, in the next install pass, I chose "Shell" from the partition dialog; created 1M aligned: freebsd-boot, freebsd-ufs and freebsd-swap partitions. I then [cmd=]newfs -U /dev/ada0p2[/cmd] [cmd=]mount /dev/ada0p2 /mnt[/cmd] [cmd=]vi /tmp/bsdinstall_etc/fstab[/cmd] (creating entries for / and swap) then finally [cmd=]exit[/cmd]
From there the installation proceeded as in the default install above. But, no joy, would not boot. My new Asus MB w/ EUFI went right past the new install. As well: when I "F8 and selected the new installation drive", no boot was realized.
Questions:
Does this look like it might be an issue with the Asus EUFI BIOS?
Does not the installer load the boot image into the freebsd-boot partion?
If not, where would it be on the install media (memstick.img) so that I may use it to install at creation of the partition.
tia !