FreeBSD 10 does not boot after clean install

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Latest FREEBSD 10 does not boot after clean installation.

Installed using this image: FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img

Used Guided Partitioning, where I selected my only hard drive, chose Entire Disk and selected "finish". Autopartitioning looked perfectly OK: GPT, boot, ufs, swap

Installation goes OK without any error message, but after final reboot – I get no bootable device found.

I tried these command in LiveCD shell:
gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr ada0
gpart set -a active ada0

I also tried this command
gpart destroy -F /dev/ada0
after which I re-installed BSD and it still does not boot.

Hard drive's SMART looks good. No bad sectors. BIOS settings are correct (UEFI is turned off).

I was able to successfully install previous version of FreeBSD using FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img and followed exactly same steps, autopartitioning looks absolutely identical.**

I tried to install using CD version FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso and I get exactly same issue, BIOS won't boot it.**

Please help, I'm not sure why 10.0-RELEASE won't boot.

The same problem is experienced in FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-i386-disc.iso too

Best Answer

I had a similar problem and here's what I had to do on FreeBSD 10.0. Since you don't yet have an answer, here's what I did. After the install (which I did with GPT and ZFS), I opted to go to the terminal instead of rebooting. I then ran the following commands.

gpart set -a active /dev/ada0
gpart set -a bootme -i 1 /dev/ada0

'1' was the number of my boot partition from gpart show.

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