System won't boot after successful installation
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2022 7:40 pm
I'm trying to install GhostBSD on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420. The Live image boots fine from a DVD. (Everything seems to work fine, including Wi-Fi.) The installer runs and I get the "Installation is complete" dialog box. I select "Restart."
When the laptop reboots, it will only boot from the DVD. Whether from a restart or complete shutdown, instead of booting, it brings up the Boot Menu. I select the HDD, the screen goes blank for a moment, and returns to the Boot Menu. (With or without the DVD in the drive.) If I select the DVD, it boots up into the Live version of Ghost BSD.
The drive is an SSD. On the off chance the drive had died, I tried a brand new SSD -- with the same results.
Under "Boot Option" the only choice I can select is the FreeBSD BIOS loader only. (I had chosen to use the whole disk.)
Once upon a time, the original SSD had been running OpenBSD. I was able to successfully install OpenBSD 7.0 on the new SSD. So it appears the issue is selecting the whole disk. Do I need to partition the drive? Select a format other than ZFS?
Thanks for any insight.
When the laptop reboots, it will only boot from the DVD. Whether from a restart or complete shutdown, instead of booting, it brings up the Boot Menu. I select the HDD, the screen goes blank for a moment, and returns to the Boot Menu. (With or without the DVD in the drive.) If I select the DVD, it boots up into the Live version of Ghost BSD.
The drive is an SSD. On the off chance the drive had died, I tried a brand new SSD -- with the same results.
Under "Boot Option" the only choice I can select is the FreeBSD BIOS loader only. (I had chosen to use the whole disk.)
Once upon a time, the original SSD had been running OpenBSD. I was able to successfully install OpenBSD 7.0 on the new SSD. So it appears the issue is selecting the whole disk. Do I need to partition the drive? Select a format other than ZFS?
Thanks for any insight.