[RndTbl] FreeBSD 7 install -- help required!
Bigadmin
bigadmin at unixplanet.biz
Sun Apr 13 16:54:22 CDT 2008
Most of the blank screens that I have seen so far, was related to Display
Adaptor Driver
And not Hard Drives.
set hard drive setting in BIOS to be auto or default and when you see the
freebsd menue
At start up select option 4 and boot it in single user mode, if boot in
single user
mode is successful, hard drive is detected fine, and you should look for
display adapter
driver.
Have you tried to boot it with free bsd live cd ?
-----Original Message-----
From: roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca]
On Behalf Of Kevin McGregor
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 8:08 PM
To: MUUG Roundtable
Subject: [RndTbl] FreeBSD 7 install -- help required!
I've installed FreeBSD 7 twice today, and both times it hangs with a
blank screen and a blinking cursor after the install and final reboot.
It's a AMD Athlon 64 X2 system with 2 GB RAM and a 40 GB hard drive
(38162 MB, WD400JB). Before installing the first time, I erased it with
a single blanking run of Derik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN).
At the beginning of the install, it complained about the drive geometry
(how 90s). The FreeBSD installer indicates that the geometry is set to
77545/16/63, that this is wrong, and it's using something better, which
turns out to be 4865/255/63. When I go into the BIOS, it reports the
geometry to be 19158/16/255. FreeBSD doesn't let me set the geometry to
either of the two other ones!
Oh, and one install I used the "FreeBSD Boot Manager" option, and the
other time I told it to use the standard MBR option.
So now what do I do?
Kevin
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