Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3

[Panagiotis Christias]

On 11/2/2013 14:11, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:23:53 +0200
> Panagiotis Christias <p.christias at noc.ntua.gr> 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;

Thanks,
Panagiotis

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Panagiotis J. Christias    Network Management Center
p.christias at noc.ntua.gr    National Technical Univ. of Athens, GREECE