Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:55:10 -0400 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD-11 on i386 Message-ID: <f30508a65ec1e05ad0ae32660a255e52.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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I am going to need some detailed guidance (i.e. hand-holding) on
resolving this. The story so far:
1. Downloaded FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso and ran sha256sum
which checked out OK.
2. Burnt a DVD from said .iso image.
3. Installed FreeBSD on an HP-Compaq DC7700S (2 Gb RAM, 500Gb SATA
HDD) using the provided installer program.
4. System drops into a boot prompt during subsequent boots from disk.
Can't find /boot/zfsloader
FreeBSD/x86 boot
Default: zroot/ROOT/default:/boot/kernel/kernel
boot:
\
{ repeats all above once }
boot:
5. Booting from CD into single user mode works. Gpart shows this:
=> 40 976773088 ada0 GPT (466G)
40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K)
1064 984 - free - (492K)
2048 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G)
4196352 972576768 3 freebsd-zfs (464G)
976773120 8 4 - free - (4.0K)
How do I get this system to boot? Should I have gone the UFS root
instead of ZFS? Is that the source of the problem? If so then how to
I restart the installer?
Please reply directly to me as well as to the list. I get the digest
version of the list.
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