REPOST - Installation Bug - All available versions hang on install

[Colin Percival]

At 17:07 14/12/2003 -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:57:34PM -0800, Thor Anderson wrote:
> > The computer is able to boot other operating systems from CD.  Testing
> > shows Microsoft as well as Fedora project Linux boot and install properly.
>
>hint.atkbdc.0.disabled=1
>hint.atkbd.0.disabled=1
>hint.fdc.0.disabled=1
>
>Unfortnaly, you can't do that since you don't have a serial port.  The
>one hack I can think of would be to try to PXE boot the CD image from
>another machine.  You could then modify the loader.conf on the pxe image
>to force these settings.

   Given that the system can boot Linux, one option is to install linux,
build a minimal FreeBSD filesystem, dd it to the drive, and reboot.  If
you want to be clever, you could even create a filesystem in a md root,
and then run sysinstall over ssh.

Colin Percival