Fresh installed Freebsd 9 don't boot from hd

[John Baldwin]

On Friday, October 21, 2011 4:58:51 am Dennis Koegel wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:28:08AM +0400, Pavel Timofeev wrote:
> > I used FreeBSD 9 amd64 on my HP Proliant DL360 G5 (smart array p400i 
mirror)
> > as test. [...]
> > It was fresh install and I choose guided partitioning (GPT)
> > But after reboot my server don't boot from hd.
> 
> We have the same issue on a DL580 G7. Install runs fine, but when it's
> time for the first boot, the bootcode emits a single '-' (where usually
> it would be "spinning" for a moment while loading), hangs for about two
> seconds, and then reboots.

Working offline with Dennis, we found that changing the CFLAGS in 
sys/boot/i386/gptboot/Makefile from "-O1" to "-Os -mrtd" (partially reverting 
an earlier commit) fixed gptboot.  The next test for someone to do would be to 
try just adding "-mrtd" and leaving "-O1" as-is to see if that fixes it.

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John Baldwin