I have a machine which previously dual-booted Windows 10 and GhostBSD, using rEFInd (which was installed by the GhostBSD installer). I'm trying to wipe the machine and install a fresh copy of FreeBSD 13.1 as the only OS on the machine. (I used GhostBSD to figure out some hardware stuff and test-run for a while, so I know the hardware should work fine.)
I can run the install without issue, but when I try to reboot into the new installation, it doesn't do anything. There appears to be no bootloader --- telling the BIOS to boot from the hard disk results in nothing happening.
If I boot into the install media again to get a shell, I see the right partitions in the output of "gpart show /dev/nvd0" (a small boot partition, swap, and ZFS, with a bit of space in between).
I've seen two sorts of suggestions, neither of which seems to help:
I can run the install without issue, but when I try to reboot into the new installation, it doesn't do anything. There appears to be no bootloader --- telling the BIOS to boot from the hard disk results in nothing happening.
If I boot into the install media again to get a shell, I see the right partitions in the output of "gpart show /dev/nvd0" (a small boot partition, swap, and ZFS, with a bit of space in between).
I've seen two sorts of suggestions, neither of which seems to help:
- I've seen it suggested to run "gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 /dev/nvd0" (yes, this is the correct device for my disk) to install boot code manually during install, but this doesn't seem to do anything
- I've also seen lots of suggestions to use efibootmgr, but when I try this from the live install media, it says "efibootmgr: efi variables not supported on this system. root? kldload efirt?" but I'm root in the installation media and kldload insists efirt is already loaded or built-in (I'm guessing built-in since it doesn't show up in kldstat).