Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:43:55 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Panagiotis Christias <p.christias@noc.ntua.gr> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3 Message-ID: <CAN6yY1uxN3Ya2V84nmfKGczDjVNOPvVBwo8Q2O7D_mebq89fxw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51193151.2090204@noc.ntua.gr> References: <20130211112352.GA84742@noc.ntua.gr> <20130211191145.2b96ba8f@X220.ovitrap.com> <51193151.2090204@noc.ntua.gr>
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Panagiotis Christias <p.christias@noc.ntua.gr> wrote: > On 11/2/2013 14:11, Erich Dollansky wrote: >> >> 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. > > > Hello, > > I suppose trying an 8.3 installation would be the easiest way to use MBR > instead of GPT, right; That would do it, but 9.1 is perfectly happy doing MBR. It's just not the default. Seems like many BIOSes assume that GPT=uEFI. Clearly this is silly, but... I know Lenovo laptops have this problem and it is VERY annoying. I run FreeBSD on a GPT disk on my ThinkPad, but I have booteasy installed on an MBR disk (which contains W7) and my BIOS is set to boot from that disk.BootEasy then will boot up the GPT disk with FreeBSD. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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