Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:42:29 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD-11 on i386 Message-ID: <58FE1CE5.7030900@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <95963a8c2b078850f983da664671e6a4.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <mailman.102.1492948802.77764.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <95963a8c2b078850f983da664671e6a4.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote: > 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 i386 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 behavior 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. > > Symptoms may be caused by bad dvd media or dvd r/w hardware. That long pause is a good indicator. Recreate your dvd disk using a never before used blank one. You could also trying burning the dvd media on different dvd r/w hardware. I have 11.0 installed on a i386 mbr hard drive. I used the cdrom1.iso because I don't have dvd r/w hardware.
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