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Subject: Re: boot hangs after install 4.8
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Rob Lahaye <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> I have just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC. Only FreeBSD, no other OS.
> The installation goes all well; I exit at the end and the PC boots.
> Immediately after the BIOS stuff, I get the first FreeBSD prompt:
> 
> 
>     F1  FreeBSD
> 
>     Default: F1
> 
> 
> What ever key I hit next, only produces a beep from the PC.
> Nothing happens, so it seems to hang at this point.
> 
> Any clue what is going wrong here?

Sounds like you've got a single slice.  The bootloader isn't managing
to find the FreeBSD boot blocks.  You may have failed to install them
for some reason, or maybe you've put the root partition too far in to
the disk for the BIOS to boot it.