I went to install 11.1 yesterday

[Manish Jain]

On 08/20/17 17:20, scratch65535 at att.net wrote:
> discovered that, like Linux (or at
> least Ubuntu) 11 doesn't support MBR


Hi,

There must be some misunderstanding here. Both Linux as well as FreeBSD 
11 fully support MBR. I have installed 11 as well as 12-current using MBR.

I do not know what leads you to that conclusion. If you could tell 
precisely what you tried, perhaps someone will point out the actual 
problem for your system.

I have a cheat-sheet for troubleshooting FreeBSD installation when 
things are not going right :

1) Disable UEFI in the BIOS and force your disks to be presented as 
Legacy devices

2) Boot from optical media installer, not USB

3) If using UFS, prefer MBR partitioning. For ZFS, be prepared to devote 
a whole disk partitioned GPT.

Could you please fill in some details after trying my suggestions above ?

Regards
Manish Jain