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Old 19th August 2013
caravel caravel is offline
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Well the disk in question was not a GPT disk - it was a disk which was pulled from an old machine which was running windows xp where the motherboard died. I tried to install with an MBR, not GPT, and still had exactly the same problem as last year. (I'm not going to pretend to understand how FreeBSD partitions disks however.)

FreeBSD 8.4 installs and boots fine on exactly the same hardware (including the disk)

Also the disk on which I installed FreeBSD 9.1 boots without any problems from another machine.

As with last year's attempt, the disk would render the system in question completely unbootable when connected - irrespective of whether it was set as the boot device or not. The disk detection, during POST, is the point where it freezes. In order to get the disk usable again in that machine, I had to plug it into another machine and remove all partitions.

The only difference between now and last year is that this is a different disk - a seagate SATA disk, as opposed to the WD PATA disk used in the previous attempt.

Thanks

//edit: Found some related threads at the FreeBSD forums:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=35922

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38133
The advice to use mbr doesn't help as I've tried that.

//edit2: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29596
(last post may be worth a try?)

Last edited by caravel; 19th August 2013 at 04:17 PM. Reason: added links
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