amd64/182686: bios lost HDD after installing freebsd-9.x

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday, October 05, 2013 10:18:42 am XXXXXX wrote:
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> >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:        
> >Keywords:       
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct 05 14:20:00 UTC 2013
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     áÎÄÒÅÊ
> >Release:        9.2
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> >Description:
> I have installed freebsd-9.1 on my AMD 64 machine it worked well. But I have 
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 
install the system. after installing i make "shutdown -p now". When i turned 
my computer on, BIOS did not detect any hard drive.
> Then i installed system on SATA hard drive and have got the same result. 
When i connect this SATA drive to windows machine via USB - disk is OK. After 
deleting FreeBSD slice and connecting the disk back to AMD64 its BIOS has 
detected the drive.

Did you use GPT?  If so, try using MBR instead for partitioning your disk.

-- 
John Baldwin