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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:12:25 -0600
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Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop
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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote:

> I see now the SD Card was not the install target, but regarding the the
> original point to OP was able to preform other normal operations on the card
> eg different FS.
>
> I don't really think the OP was pressing W initially which is why I didn't
> say anything earlier, just saying it's worth a check.
>

There is also this issue here which looks to be quite similar.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=135040&cat=

You can try to upgrade your BIOS and reduced physical memory or use the
suggested loader.conf setting(or boot prompt)


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Adam Vande More