sysinstall dying when reading GPT

[Michael Moll]

Hi All,

I've had quite some trouble when trying to install FreeBSD onto a HP
rx2600. I tried the snapshot-ISOs of -CURRENT (11/2008) and -STABLE
(7.1-BETA2) which both failed when starting sysinstall. The system got
installed with a 6.1-image and then upgraded to -CURRENT now.

When starting the new sysinstall, it still fails after reading the GPT,
like in this ktrace:
   966 sysinstall NAMI  "/dev/da0"
   966 sysinstall RET   open 4
   966 sysinstall CALL  read(0x4,0x2000000040599400,0x400)
   966 sysinstall GIO   fd 4 read 1024 bytes
       0x0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 |..............................................|
[...]
       0x03f4 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 |............|

   966 sysinstall RET   read 1024/0x400
   966 sysinstall CALL  close(0x4)
   966 sysinstall RET   close 0
   966 sysinstall CALL  sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK,0x9fffffffffffdc4c,0)
   966 sysinstall RET   sigprocmask 0
   966 sysinstall CALL  getpid
   966 sysinstall RET   getpid 966/0x3c6
   966 sysinstall CALL  kill(0x3c6,SIGIOT)
   966 sysinstall RET   kill 0
   966 sysinstall PSIG  SIGIOT SIG_DFL
   966 sysinstall NAMI  "sysinstall.core"

>From what I found in the ml-archives this seems to be a long-standing
problem - Are there ways to get this fixed? For a new user it's quite
impossible to do a fresh installation...

Kind Regards
-- 
Michael Moll