From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 11 18:10:49 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532A9D33 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from p.christias@noc.ntua.gr) Received: from achilles.noc.ntua.gr (achilles.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A047F272 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [147.102.224.67] (ovpn-67.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.224.67]) (authenticated bits=0) by achilles.noc.ntua.gr (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r1BHwfsA038606 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:58:45 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from p.christias@noc.ntua.gr) Message-ID: <51193151.2090204@noc.ntua.gr> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:58:41 +0200 From: Panagiotis Christias Organization: NTUA NOC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20130117 Thunderbird/19.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erich Dollansky , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3 References: <20130211112352.GA84742@noc.ntua.gr> <20130211191145.2b96ba8f@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <20130211191145.2b96ba8f@X220.ovitrap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (achilles.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.210]); Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:58:46 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.5 at achilles.noc.ntua.gr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:10:49 -0000 On 11/2/2013 14:11, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:23:53 +0200 > Panagiotis Christias 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. Hello, I suppose trying an 8.3 installation would be the easiest way to use MBR instead of GPT, right; Thanks, Panagiotis -- Panagiotis J. Christias Network Management Center p.christias@noc.ntua.gr National Technical Univ. of Athens, GREECE