From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 11 19:44:01 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 7D93EF99 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:44:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pa0-f50.google.com (mail-pa0-f50.google.com [209.85.220.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB0D9EB for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:44:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id fa11so3271433pad.23 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:43:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ZiA6ktQMFFwZQXKPS5596934PbegAcyX15BNJaRGUcA=; b=FHldhWpeqvqmdHq3p9dI5UWeGgU5hYzCvPqcD82M8e60vxWroLyUBbpmFu7PQ5wNFR 1dD/O8sbatQQKtaINSZpyGnSDfCal7QhXgu788ZPAQDkkL74bHdIgzRJnhw2BjG7NcEd 77Hw2X2IYe1axkvV/jy0MK5W7DXIZIOxySX11MgVN7Rb+uw18Sq8KDrV0YpaI5LgHmQP bRL/KgFdfVUJ50VXR+VzxHZr1hwjZCMhJrriKIqUblJtOLkZuX7YqG87dTlYpGpd33HI Tu+i+8PWxEDn5Kv5yScnhm+Ctkpaeq40oXS/L/d5fm8EAVG+142n4psdos6mh8xyZIwT mgqw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.73.164 with SMTP id m4mr44116333pav.12.1360611835245; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:43:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.2.65 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:43:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <51193151.2090204@noc.ntua.gr> References: <20130211112352.GA84742@noc.ntua.gr> <20130211191145.2b96ba8f@X220.ovitrap.com> <51193151.2090204@noc.ntua.gr> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:43:55 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3 From: Kevin Oberman To: Panagiotis Christias Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Erich Dollansky 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 19:44:01 -0000 On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Panagiotis Christias wrote: > 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; 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