FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> I've just tried to boot a FreeBSD-9.0 BETA2 (i386) memstick USB image
> on my BIOS.
>
> When inserted into a FreeBSD box (the one that I wrote it from), the
> partition table has an MBR style partition setup with a single EFI
> partition on it.

Also known as a "protective MBR".  Wikipedia's section on GPT is decent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table