From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 24 20:31:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2CB16A4CE for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:31:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45C843D1F for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:31:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com) Received: from pd4mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.214]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTM00EC9HTV68@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:29:55 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml4so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.148]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTM00CNHHR9PL@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:28:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from francisco.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (h24-87-202-31.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.202.31]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTM00CAXHR8B7@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:28:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from hardesty.hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com [192.168.23.1]) by francisco.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1P4SfE8004146; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:28:42 -0800 Received: from aardvark by hardesty.hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Avqei-0006ss-00; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:28:20 -0800 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:28:19 -0800 From: Saint Aardvark the Carpeted In-reply-to: <4BE2BBE2EFF96341898DE73F8DC50A1DA3DF3F@nt-hqexmail1.boiseoffice.com> Sender: Debian User To: AdamWilson@boiseoffice.com Message-id: <20040225042819.GA23994@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i References: <4BE2BBE2EFF96341898DE73F8DC50A1DA3DF3F@nt-hqexmail1.boiseoffice.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9 stable release installation probs on x86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 04:31:39 -0000 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.