misc/175690: FreeBSD 8.x/9.x fails to boot on HP Blade xw460c/BL460c G1 using MBR partition table

Sergey starikov at caotus.ru
Wed Jan 30 07:00:01 UTC 2013


>Number:         175690
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD 8.x/9.x fails to boot on HP Blade xw460c/BL460c G1 using MBR partition table
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 30 07:00:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sergey
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD test.caotus.ru 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec  4 09:23:10 UTC 2012     root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

>Description:
I have in production HP c7000 Enclosure Blade System (with Hewlett Packard BL 460c G1 servers and xw460c workstations inside).

The issue is in that after-install (for 8.x the only supported by default partition table, for 9.x - the legacy, MBR one) boot failes.
The error, reported on console, is:

Attempting Boot From Hard Drive (C:)
Invalid partition table

Recommended installation type of 9.1 (uname -a attached), on GPT partition table, succeed.

Issue tested on 8.3-RELEASE (error with 8.1-RELEASE I don't remeber) and 9.1-RELEASE.
Installation of legacy versions (i.e. FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE) completely succeed.
Newer hardware (BL 460c G7) not tested yet.

>How-To-Repeat:
1. Get issued hardware (HP BL 460c G1 server or xw460c workstation);
2. Install FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE;
3. Try to boot;
4. See quoted error;
5. Repeat test with FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE (using MBR partition table);
6. See similiar error.
>Fix:
Don't known.

Just use legacy (7.x) version of FreeBSD for MBR partition table or install current (9.1) version on GPT partition table.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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