Solved 15.0 Release - First boot failed to find bootable partition

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pbrazendale

Hi,

I have installed the latest 15.0 release onto my machine, the partition layout is as follows:

/dev/nda0p1 - EFI /boot/efi
/dev/nda0p2 - NTFS Windows Drive
/dev/nda0p3 - freebsd-swap none
/dev/nda0p4 - freebsd-ufs /

I follwewd through the installer and came to reboot the machine, I have rEFInd installed and that detects my BSD install and my windows install. When selecting the BSD entry form the menu I get the following error:

Failed to find bootable partition
ERROR: cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: no such file or directory.

I am then dropped to the 'OK' prompt.

Really stumped here as to what the issue is, would really appreciate some advice.

Thanks.
 
In the OK prompt (see loader_simp()) you can do:

Code: 
lsdev

This lists all devices from which you can boot.

In the list, you should see "disk0p4" corresponding to your ufs partition (/dev/nda0p4).

If so, then do:
Code: 
set currdev=disk0p4:
ls /boot/lua

If the file loader.lua is listed, do:

Code: 
boot

If FreeBSD boots correctly, you write another post and we'll see what else we can do.
 
Thanks, this worked first time and booted me straight in. I imagine I need to make a change to the boot loader so will make another post to ask advice on this, thanks again.
 
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