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From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
To: James Seward <jamesoff@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: BTX loader hangs after version info
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On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 05:34:57PM +0100, James Seward wrote:

> X. However, from the moment I press F1 to choose FreeBSD to the moment
> it's done booting, all I see on the screen is "BTX loader 1.00 BTX
> version is 1.02" and the cursor blinking below it. My only clues that
> it's booting at the time are disk activity, and the cursor changing
> from a flashing underline to a solid block (which it always has as the
> kernel proper takes over).

It seems you have /boot/device.hints missing or broken.
Just do "cp /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints".

Eugene Grosbein