installing 8.0-current-200906 snapshot

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:34:49AM -0600, ToyoRunner wrote:
> I encounter the same error message. It means that for what ever reason
> the kernel cannot negotiate DMA transfers with the CD drive. You can
> either ignore it or stop the boot loader and run the command: set
> hw.ata.atapi_dma=0

thank you, I was able to install the minimal configuration.
However, on reboot, I can't see where my FBSD is.. So I can't boot it.

I can see this:

fs0:\boot> ls
Directory of: fs0:\boot

  06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>          8,192  .
  06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>              0  ..
  06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>          8,192  defaults
  06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>          8,192  firmware
  06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>          8,192  kernel
  06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>          8,192  modules
  06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>          8,192  zfs
  06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>         57,344  GENERIC
  06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  loader.efi
  06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  support.4th
  06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  loader.rc
  06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  loader.4th
  06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  skiload
  06/12/09  06:56p       r            0  device.hints
  06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  loader.help
          7 File(s)           0 bytes
          8 Dir(s)


fs0:\boot>



fs0: is a disk

Not sure what to do next. And why is loader.efi zero size?

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