Booting freshly installed GhostBSD 11.1 Fails on ASUS VivoPC
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:35 am
Hi! I was hoping that someone here might have (had) the same problem as me.
I will be talking about (the openly failed attempt to install) Ghostbsd 11.1 in the hardware Asus VivoPC (intel i5).
Yesterday, I tried to install the OS. All went "right", the live system booted without a glitch, the install procedure went on as normal and then I rebooted...then nothing happened. The machine was just unable to boot again. I didnt even make it to the BIOS so I can change the boot order. Nothing. No possibility to mend that.
Today, after reading similar reports in another forum (albeit mostly found on laptops of the same brand), I pulled out the HD as it was one of the suggestions, and let the USB with the live system connected. This time, I made it to the BIOS and could boot the live system, BUT, of course, as the HD is not plug and play, I was unable to re-install Ghostbsd to the HD if I connect it again instantly after booting.
Long story short, HD connected= No BIOS, HD Disconnected= Boot OK; BIOS setting back to normal. what I cannot figure out is, what BIOS configuration will make me (at least marginally) able to boot from the HD again?. The machine was running windows 8 natively, but I purposedly killed Windows by installing GhostBSD to the whole disk. I chose "ZFS" and "Install only the FreeBSD Bootloader" when prompted for it while installing.
Any comments and recommendations highly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
I will be talking about (the openly failed attempt to install) Ghostbsd 11.1 in the hardware Asus VivoPC (intel i5).
Yesterday, I tried to install the OS. All went "right", the live system booted without a glitch, the install procedure went on as normal and then I rebooted...then nothing happened. The machine was just unable to boot again. I didnt even make it to the BIOS so I can change the boot order. Nothing. No possibility to mend that.
Today, after reading similar reports in another forum (albeit mostly found on laptops of the same brand), I pulled out the HD as it was one of the suggestions, and let the USB with the live system connected. This time, I made it to the BIOS and could boot the live system, BUT, of course, as the HD is not plug and play, I was unable to re-install Ghostbsd to the HD if I connect it again instantly after booting.
Long story short, HD connected= No BIOS, HD Disconnected= Boot OK; BIOS setting back to normal. what I cannot figure out is, what BIOS configuration will make me (at least marginally) able to boot from the HD again?. The machine was running windows 8 natively, but I purposedly killed Windows by installing GhostBSD to the whole disk. I chose "ZFS" and "Install only the FreeBSD Bootloader" when prompted for it while installing.
Any comments and recommendations highly appreciated! Thanks in advance!