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From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: amd64/182686: bios lost HDD after installing freebsd-9.x
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The following reply was made to PR amd64/182686; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Cc: XXXXXX <rekunov@gmail.com>,
 freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/182686: bios lost HDD after installing freebsd-9.x
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 11:41:27 -0400

 On Saturday, October 05, 2013 10:18:42 am XXXXXX wrote:
 >=20
 > >Number:         182686
 > >Category:       amd64
 > >Synopsis:       bios lost HDD after installing freebsd-9.x
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:       =20
 > >Keywords:      =20
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct 05 14:20:00 UTC 2013
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     =E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA
 > >Release:        9.2
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > >Description:
 > I have installed freebsd-9.1 on my AMD 64 machine it worked well. But I h=
 ave=20
 decided to go on 9.2 version and. I booted from usb, create slice and bsd-
 partitions on IDE hard drive using gpart and newfs. then i used bsdinstall =
 to=20
 install the system. after installing i make "shutdown -p now". When i turne=
 d=20
 my computer on, BIOS did not detect any hard drive.
 > Then i installed system on SATA hard drive and have got the same result.=
 =20
 When i connect this SATA drive to windows machine via USB - disk is OK. Aft=
 er=20
 deleting FreeBSD slice and connecting the disk back to AMD64 its BIOS has=20
 detected the drive.
 
 Did you use GPT?  If so, try using MBR instead for partitioning your disk.
 
 =2D-=20
 John Baldwin