From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 06:16:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4AC106564A for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:16:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jktrigg@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A6F8FC0A for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:16:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so7952117wwf.31 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:16:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=IixjAnbMfa/yT+HlLBKKIsbvBxdBruucfdeX1ezT+bY=; b=ssdj25oRjFZnNS+4rcgkIgu+JKiTwvRjwLy+wGQ6ruPAoySnVAzv+rt7z8CxjdOYJ3 cIO3PZnkQDpCTkkSBxdMh37JmoJipDZj33ytfUIkrAmBmH+yYvusoNOONjdpxc1DMBg1 EhQlTo8pZoS7mhslMsXf8q8tejOaTdyjbPw7E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=nBVW9URWkBD4bkveaq90TcUU+6pHK4AsUXeRdkcWz8P8+MSPQ5LJnkXqYt8vROKJ38 xk179eXiumG0SkZrvLtWYwmRQ954LEZJpUpbwU4n9LN5fYSCbC7dEUWV0TCE96eJnYeg p7+eojrLI0Y5wg5BMkD3DhmeIpfvIOOlvNnQ8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.10.208 with SMTP id 58mr3189707wev.14.1298441774389; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:16:14 -0800 (PST) Sender: jktrigg@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.93.85 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:16:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:16:14 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: awyJlcW14aZ9DsY3waEAMqUgr_E Message-ID: From: Jim Trigg To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Installation problem on AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:16:16 -0000 On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Jim Trigg wrote: > I do an installation from DVD on AMD64, and when I reboot it hangs > before displaying anything from the standard boot loader. =A0How can I > debug this? I found my problem by accident -- I had a badly formatted USB stick connected. (I had tried to write the memstick image to a 1G stick -- not quite large enough.) Thanks, Jim