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Old 19th August 2013
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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.)
I believe the "auto" option in Guided Partitioning FreeBSD 9.x, writes a GPT to the disk. Even though it was not a GPT disk, if your attempts to install 9.x used Guide Partitioning -> auto there is a good chance it has a GPT table. The link I provided has an easy way to interogate the tables
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# gdisk /dev/sdc
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.7.2

Partition table scan:
MBR: MBR only
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present

Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use?
1 - MBR
2 - GPT
3 - Create blank GPT

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