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On Nov 20, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Borja Marcos wrote:

> However, maybe HP has assumed that everyone will use it in =
"intelligent" mode and they haven't implemented the BIOS
> code for it correctly, for example missing the BIOS extensions.
>=20
> So, can we assume that it's not a problem with the FreeBSD boot chain, =
but definitely a poorly implemented BIOS?

Replying to myself, a friend tried the same configuration with a MBR =
partition table and he says it worked.

I'll try that this evening and report the results.






Borja.