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. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Panagiotis -- Panagiotis J. Christias Network Management Center P.Christias at noc.ntua.gr National Technical Univ. of Athens, GREECE
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. Erich
On 02/12/2013 02:59 AM, kpneal at pobox.com wrote:> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:43:55AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Panagiotis Christias >> <p.christias at noc.ntua.gr> wrote: >>> >>> I suppose trying an 8.3 installation would be the easiest way to use MBR >>> instead of GPT, right; >> >> That would do it, but 9.1 is perfectly happy doing MBR. It's just not >> the default. >> >> Seems like many BIOSes assume that GPT=uEFI. Clearly this is silly, but... >> >> I know Lenovo laptops have this problem and it is VERY annoying. I run >> FreeBSD on a GPT disk on my ThinkPad, but I have booteasy installed on >> an MBR disk (which contains W7) and my BIOS is set to boot from that >> disk.BootEasy then will boot up the GPT disk with FreeBSD. > > Doesn't GPT start with an MBR covering the entire disk? How feasible would > it be to tweak that MBR so that a boot partition was listed in it? Say, a > partition holding the root filesystem could be listed in both the GPT and > MBR style. Then a disk could be booted with MBR or GPT at the whim of the > firmware. > > I agree that this BIOS=MBR/UEFI=GPT assumption is pure rubbish. I've got > machines with this documented restriction and I'd love a way around it. >It is feasible, it's known as a hybrid MBR. On Linux I've accomplished this using the gdisk utility, I don't know how it can be done on FreeBSD though. I had to use this ugly solution in order to install windows 8 on a GPT disk on a pc without UEFI support.
On 11/02/2013 12:23, Panagiotis Christias 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.How stable is it? I may have a problem manifesting in random reboots with a similar machine. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20130219/8760f872/attachment.sig>