[RndTbl] FreeBSD 7 install -- help required!

[Kevin McGregor]

Well: The hard drive setting in the BIOS was set to auto already. Also, 
the computer hangs before the FreeBSD menu, right after the last BIOS 
output, so I can't select any boot option. I haven't tried booting with 
any FreeBSD live CD, but the Ubuntu live CD (for example) works fine.

Also, I have since reinstalled FreeBSD selecting only the "User" set of 
packages (no X), and I get the same result.

Any other suggestions?


Bigadmin wrote:
> 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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