Solved Installing FreeBSD on Notebook (ASUS S200E)

mbzadegan

mbzadegan

Hi everybody,
I'm going to install the the last release of FreeBSD on my (DVDrom less) notebook.
At the first I started with memstitck-i386-release and so it can not booted.
I tried both of x64 release (UEFI & Without UEFI). Both of them can boot on my notebook and complete the installer steps But when I rebooted for the first time, The notebook can not booted because of not identifying my HDD by BIOS!
Then, I tried with DragonflyBSD and see that it's installed OK and rebooted excellent without error!
My question: How can I tune FreeBSD to install correctly on my HDD (Such as DragonflyBSD)?
PS: I selected [ Auto (UFS) ] on installer and did not select ZFS.
 
Make sure you have SecureBoot turned off. FreeBSD doesn't support it (yet at least).

And posting the errors (if any) you get when you boot it the first time would be helpful in diagnosing the problem.
 
SirDice said:
And posting the errors (if any) you get when you boot it the first time would be helpful in diagnosing the problem.
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At the first boot I did not get any error but I force forwarded to BIOS environment.
I had disable the 'secure boot control' option on my BIOS but still I can not reboot to FreeBSD!
 
Try the normal installer, UEFI is still quite new and may not work all the time. A 'traditional' boot should work provided your laptop can enable CSM.
 
Yes, Of course I used normal installer with enabling CSM option too.
Still My problem does not resolved!
Thanks for helping me.
 
Is there any other suggestions about my problem?
Does resolving this problem need to patch FreeBSD for next release?
 
Finally myself found the resolving way of FreeBSD installing on my Notebook.:beer::)
It's the FreeBSD BUG on Auto installing.
When I selected manually install and step by step partitioning it's resolved because FreeBSD [auto UFS] installing had not selected BSD table and automatically selected MBR boot table!
 
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