Ok the plot thickens. I installed on a new 40GB PATA drive today - just to make sure I booted before hand, the POST completed and "boot failure" - so far so good.
I then installed as before; two partitions only 2GB of swap, but using a DOS MBR instead of GPT. The result - exactly the same result.
I now intend to check and see if either of these drives will boot in another system I have. If they do I'll wipe them and try FreeBSD 8.3 next.
//edit: Ok both drives boot up ok from another PC (which has windows xp) I managed to delete the partitions from the last drive I set up (with an MBR) but windows does not recognise the GPT drive and cannot delete/create partitions on it.
I will try FreeBSD 8.3
Last edited by caravel; 20th June 2012 at 07:56 PM.
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