Re: Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3
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. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:54:25AM +0200, John Alex. wrote: On 02/12/2013 02:59 AM, kpn...@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.christ...@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. Just for the record, I managed to install successfully 8.3 with the default options and 9.1 by selecting MBR instead of GPT during the initial disk patitioning. In both cases the system's UEFI/BIOS options were left untouched. Thanks for the help, Panagiotis -- Panagiotis J. ChristiasNetwork Management Center p.christ...@noc.ntua.grNational Technical Univ. of Athens, GREECE ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3
Hi, On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:23:53 +0200 Panagiotis Christias p.christ...@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 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3
On 11/2/2013 14:11, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:23:53 +0200 Panagiotis Christias p.christ...@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. Hello, I suppose trying an 8.3 installation would be the easiest way to use MBR instead of GPT, right; Thanks, Panagiotis -- Panagiotis J. ChristiasNetwork Management Center p.christ...@noc.ntua.grNational Technical Univ. of Athens, GREECE ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Panagiotis Christias p.christ...@noc.ntua.gr wrote: On 11/2/2013 14:11, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:23:53 +0200 Panagiotis Christias p.christ...@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. Hello, 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. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3
Hi, On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:58:41 +0200 Panagiotis Christias p.christ...@noc.ntua.gr wrote: On 11/2/2013 14:11, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:23:53 +0200 Panagiotis Christias p.christ...@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. Hello, I suppose trying an 8.3 installation would be the easiest way to use MBR instead of GPT, right; I run 10 with MBR. It is only a matter of telling either the installation programm or gpart what to do. Erich ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 on IBM x3550 M3
On 02/12/2013 02:59 AM, kpn...@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.christ...@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. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
