I have a SATA disk attached to an somewhat old machine. Because of other disks/operating systems, BIOS is set up as
legacy BIOS rather than UEFI.
I installed FreeBSD onto that disk using the entire disk. Did the automatic partitioning with MS_DOS format and get:
ada2 466 Gb MBR
ada2s1 466 Gb BSD
ada2s1a 462 Gb freebsd-ufs /
ada2s1b 3.8 Gb freebsd-swap none
The boot did not see the disk and it dawned on me that perhaps I neglected to make the primary partition bootable. So I did:
# parted set 1 flag boot. Now parted print shows that the Flat is "boot". I thought I has solved the problem, but when tried to boot
to that disk I get a blinking cursor UL on blank screen. This might mean BIOS does not see the drive, but in fact BIOS does see
it.
I get mixed message from an online search. If the MS-DOS partition scheme is used, is there a 500 Kb freebsd-boot partition
with a boot flag. My installation did not create such a partition.
legacy BIOS rather than UEFI.
I installed FreeBSD onto that disk using the entire disk. Did the automatic partitioning with MS_DOS format and get:
ada2 466 Gb MBR
ada2s1 466 Gb BSD
ada2s1a 462 Gb freebsd-ufs /
ada2s1b 3.8 Gb freebsd-swap none
The boot did not see the disk and it dawned on me that perhaps I neglected to make the primary partition bootable. So I did:
# parted set 1 flag boot. Now parted print shows that the Flat is "boot". I thought I has solved the problem, but when tried to boot
to that disk I get a blinking cursor UL on blank screen. This might mean BIOS does not see the drive, but in fact BIOS does see
it.
I get mixed message from an online search. If the MS-DOS partition scheme is used, is there a 500 Kb freebsd-boot partition
with a boot flag. My installation did not create such a partition.