The following reply was made to PR amd64/182686; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: XXXXXX <reku...@gmail.com>, freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64/182686: bios lost HDD after installing freebsd-9.x Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 11:41:27 -0400 On Saturday, October 05, 2013 10:18:42 am XXXXXX wrote: >=20 > >Number: 182686 > >Category: amd64 > >Synopsis: bios lost HDD after installing freebsd-9.x > >Confidential: no > >Severity: serious > >Priority: medium > >Responsible: freebsd-amd64 > >State: open > >Quarter: =20 > >Keywords: =20 > >Date-Required: > >Class: sw-bug > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Sat Oct 05 14:20:00 UTC 2013 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: =E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA > >Release: 9.2 > >Organization: > >Environment: > >Description: > I have installed freebsd-9.1 on my AMD 64 machine it worked well. But I h= ave=20 decided to go on 9.2 version and. I booted from usb, create slice and bsd- partitions on IDE hard drive using gpart and newfs. then i used bsdinstall = to=20 install the system. after installing i make "shutdown -p now". When i turne= d=20 my computer on, BIOS did not detect any hard drive. > Then i installed system on SATA hard drive and have got the same result.= =20 When i connect this SATA drive to windows machine via USB - disk is OK. Aft= er=20 deleting FreeBSD slice and connecting the disk back to AMD64 its BIOS has=20 detected the drive. Did you use GPT? If so, try using MBR instead for partitioning your disk. =2D-=20 John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"