I have in production HP c7000 Enclosure Blade System (with Hewlett Packard BL 460c G1 servers and xw460c workstations inside). The issue is in that after-install (for 8.x the only supported by default partition table, for 9.x - the legacy, MBR one) boot failes. The error, reported on console, is: Attempting Boot From Hard Drive (C:) Invalid partition table Recommended installation type of 9.1 (uname -a attached), on GPT partition table, succeed. Issue tested on 8.3-RELEASE (error with 8.1-RELEASE I don't remeber) and 9.1-RELEASE. Installation of legacy versions (i.e. FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE) completely succeed. Newer hardware (BL 460c G7) not tested yet. Fix: Don't known. Just use legacy (7.x) version of FreeBSD for MBR partition table or install current (9.1) version on GPT partition table. How-To-Repeat: 1. Get issued hardware (HP BL 460c G1 server or xw460c workstation); 2. Install FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE; 3. Try to boot; 4. See quoted error; 5. Repeat test with FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE (using MBR partition table); 6. See similiar error.
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