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From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com>
To: Panagiotis Christias <p.christias@noc.ntua.gr>
Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3
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Hi,

On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:23:53 +0200
Panagiotis Christias <p.christias@noc.ntua.gr> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on an IBM x3550 M3 server.
> Installation went smoothly, RAID controller and network cards were
> successfully recognised.
> 
> But, after the installation, the server fails to boot from disk.
> There were some posts, about two years ago, in this list implying
> that the problem lies in UEFI but I couldn't find any clear
> solution.
> 
I do not know if this is the same problem I face on my notebook but it
currently does not boot when I use GPT. Can you give a MBR partitioned
disk a try?

My notebook was earlier booting from a GPT disk. I cannot remember why
I used MBR for the new disk.

Erich