From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Apr 24 13:46:06 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A5F2D4E4EE for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:46:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca) Received: from inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [216.185.71.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca", Issuer "CA_HLL_ISSUER_2016" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DC5A1E62 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:46:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E361B60D24 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:45:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at harte-lyne.ca Received: from inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id a4DzFPM1oVXu for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:45:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from webmail.harte-lyne.ca (inet04.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [216.185.71.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8EFD860763 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:45:56 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=harte-lyne.ca; s=dkim_hll; t=1493041557; bh=CVYHnrR0XCkw5XD9qzmSq+OPJcE9veHlLEuWvW2fai4=; h=In-Reply-To:References:Date:Subject:From:To:Reply-To; b=S8g/vaLoOQ2VOEGQG3XmKV/EPwq26ye4AeCUlcUb2ph3EzrAiZbpS2+2hBx58K4Xx NU2lZIqeNSEiTgoF4b3cWbHi7nSSEoBU62UoOgn2ukaF+jfet4BpH4/zuAogQM03uj F2XO8UiBKusfmRd0Zrs9g0Q+G9M9OUZV+/X+mALQIA1mEjmB5Rcgsfmhjx6RzuepHk ZSrm6dV+F7ELgERjtJg4I77vtbaN9WdXiPotLOA8R20r5/vX2E034fIeGbtkc2tf5Q RD3Kryn83NYByjz4jjVliJVej8D6PK9fQU4j5hn1t0/tcNJs9W8DAsRxMKWsxjO6fq moVArlThWYxsw== Received: from 216.185.71.44 (SquirrelMail authenticated user byrnejb_hll) by webmail.harte-lyne.ca with HTTP; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:45:57 -0400 Message-ID: <95963a8c2b078850f983da664671e6a4.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:45:57 -0400 Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD-11 on i386 From: "James B. Byrne" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22-4.el6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:46:06 -0000 On Sat, April 22, 2017 12:46, Heikki Lindholm wrote: > > Try MBR partitioning first (instead of GPT). Installer DVD should boot > when selected from your BIOS boot device selector (F12 during boot or > something like that usually). > > When I boot from the 1386 DVD I get this: Attempting to boot from CD-ROM CD Loader 1.2 Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER. . . Found Relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS CD is cd0 BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS 639kB/208723kB available memory |/-\| <=== this part takes a very, very long time. FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org. Thu Sep 29 03:37:57 UTC 2016) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf can't open 'boot/menu-commands.4th': no sucj file or directory Error while including /boot/menu.rc, in the line: include /boot/menu-commands.4th | / hang/halt/freeze/whatever. . . This behaviour is not what I started out with on this system. The first time I tried to install I got the usual boot menu and the install proceeded up to the point where copying kernel.tzx failed. Now I cannot seem to even get the boot menu to display. I have created a usb boot image as well using dd if=pathto.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M oflag=direct and the unit simply goes to the hdd even when I select the USB device to boot from. I would love to get an MBR based media but that seems unavailable with FreeBSD-11. At least I can discover no way to accomplish this. -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3