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Date:      Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:28:19 -0800
From:      Saint Aardvark the Carpeted <aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com>
To:        AdamWilson@boiseoffice.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.9 stable release installation probs on x86
Message-ID:  <20040225042819.GA23994@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com>
In-Reply-To:  <4BE2BBE2EFF96341898DE73F8DC50A1DA3DF3F@nt-hqexmail1.boiseoffice.com>
References:   <4BE2BBE2EFF96341898DE73F8DC50A1DA3DF3F@nt-hqexmail1.boiseoffice.com>

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AdamWilson@Boiseoffice.com disturbed my sleep to write:
> When I boot after the installation the
> boot loader gives an option (F1) to load FreeBSD but when
> I hit enter, F1, or just let it time out and make the
> selection, it does nothing except turn off the monitor and
> reboot the system back into the BIOS, over, and over, and
> over again.  

I had a problem like this a while back with a particular machine;
eventually I tried turning off various settings in BIOS with the disk
(DMA, PIO, etc) and it worked.

HTH,
Hugh

-- 
Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com
Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.



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