Installing on Samsung SSD 850 EVO

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Dear Community I am in need of your help.

I have just changed the harddrive on my machine to a Samsung SSD. I have tried to install ZFS via the auto config but neither GPT nor mbr installation boots after the reboot.

I am pretty sure it is something with the boot loader that isn´t working since the machine used to work with the old drive.

I have tried to set the boot active via:
gpart set -a active /dev/ada0
gpart set -a bootme -i 1 /dev/ada0

It is probably some small thing but I simply can´t figure it out :-(

All help is appreciated

Regards Stig
 
Thanks for looking at it SirDice :)

The output of gpart show ada0 gives the following result:
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 =>           34   234441581  ada0  GPT (112G)
                           34                  6           - free -          (3.0K)
                           40             1024        1 freebsd-boot (512K)
                       1064        4194304        2 freebsd-zfs    (2.0G)
                  4195368        4194304        3 freebsd-swap (2.0G)
                  8389672    226051936        4 freebsd-zfs     (108G)
               234441608                  7           - free -           (3.5K)
 
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What system are you using the drive in? I just installed the exact same drive [1] in a Lenovo X220 and I can confirm it works, but there is a quirk. There is a bug in the Lenovo's BIOS that affects both Linux and FreeBSD. Following this mailing list post got the system to boot with ZFS on root and a GPT partition scheme. This was with 10-STABLE, but I know the same is required with CURRENT and I'm pretty sure with 10.1-RELEASE.

[1] Actually, I installed two. One SATA and one mSATA and set up a ZFS mirror. :-)

ADDED: Even though the subject of the post says "EFI", this works with legacy booting as well.
 
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Thanks for your replies :) Sorry for the late answer.

tingo I have tried gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0
and gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0 with no luck.

wblock@ To be sure it wasn´t a problem with the install media/version of FreeBSD I downloaded the newest amd64 iso from the website (tried both 10.1 and current). Funny thing is that OpenBSD and the full PC-BSD installs and boots without a problem. I simply don´t get what I am doing wrong with FreeBSD :(

jrm It is good to know it can be done. I have a HP HPE H8 1132.sc. I have tried to apply the solution described in the mailing list with no luck. Nice setup you have by the way.

Hope one of you have a idea what to do since I am all out of ideas.
 
But the installer should take care of that. I see in /var/log/bsdinstall_log gpart bootcode -b "/boot/pmbr" -p "/boot/gptzfsboot" -i 1 "ada0".

Have you tried the installer with UFS, just to see if the problem is specific to ZFS? You might want to post to the questions@ mailing list to attract the attention of the bsdinstall developers. If that doesn't help, you might file a bug report.
 
Hi all - thanks for your replies.

I have verified that the bsdinstall(8) runs gpart bootcode -b "/boot/pmbr" -p "/boot/gptzfsboot"

To be sure I tried running gpart bootcode -b "/boot/pmbr" -p "/boot/gptzfsboot" -i 1 "ada0"

I will try UFS again since I didn´t look at the /var/log/bsdinstall_log last time I tried (I really like ZFS). If that doesn´t work I will try the mailing list.

Again thanks for your input :)
 
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