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Mark wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been trying to get FreeBSD 9 amd64 to boot on my 1U server
> but am unsuccesful and am out of ideas.
> 
> I tried to boot the iso from CD-ROM, I tried multiple USB memory
> sticks and I even tried to boot from hard discs, I'll explain this
> further below.
> 
> Oddly enough every boot attempt fails. Right after the hard discs are
> recognised the system just sits there, silent, with no errors. The last

Have you tried waiting a long long long time?  I have a problem
where the boot hangs but it does actually eventually boot.  The
most infomation I managed to get out of the system before I had to
give up and revert to the previous config was that although Hz was
configured as 1000, it was only ticking 19 times a second, so machine
time was running about 50 slower than wallclock time.

You might or not be experiencing the same issue.

Ian

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Ian Freislich