Solved New installation of FreeBSD

Ofloo

Ofloo

I've spent today and yesterday installing FreeBSD 10.0 and 10.1 from memstick. After the installation it always says: "no bootable device found".

I've just used the defaults and entire disk. Why is it not installing an MBR? The disk is brand new, nothing wrong with it, for some reason however it doesn't work.

Why is this?

EDIT: I tried again but this time I've partitioned the drive.
Code: 
# gpart show
=>  34  7814037101  ada0  GPT  (3.6T)
  34  6  - free -  (3.0K)
  40  1024  1  freebsd-boot  (512K)
  1064  20971520  2  freebsd-ufs  (10G)
  20972584  8388608  4  freebsd-ufs  (4.0G)
  29361192  209715200  5  freebsd-ufs  (100G)
  239076392  7566523384  6  freebsd-ufs  (3.5T)
  7805599776  8388608  3  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
  7813988384  48751  - free -  (24M)

Now it works!? I also did: gpart set -a active ada0.
 
What hardware does the machine have? Some older machines do not like GPT partitioning. In which case you'd have to partition the disk yourself.
 
The mainboard is an "Intel D945GCLF2", I just partitioned it manually and it worked fine, however it always worked when I used FreeBSD 8 and 9, I'm not sure why it won't work with FreeBSD 10. Okay the mainboard is not new but not that old either.
 
I suspect that the default partitioning scheme used by the installer has changed from MBR to GPT between FreeBSD 9 and 10.
 
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