boot hangs after install 4.8

[Toomas Aas]

> From:          Rob Lahaye <lahaye at users.sourceforge.net>

> >>I have just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC. Only FreeBSD, no other OS.
> >>The installation goes all well; I exit at the end and the PC boots.
> >>Immediately after the BIOS stuff, I get the first FreeBSD prompt:
> >>
> >>
> >>    F1  FreeBSD
> >>
> >>    Default: F1

Snip...

> FDISK Partition Editor (with "A = Use Entire Disk"):
> 	DISK Geometry:  21858 cyls/34 heads/54 sectors = 40131288 sectors (19595MB)
> 	Offset  Size(ST)     End     Name  PType       Desc  Subtype    Flags
> 	0          54         53        -      6     unused        0
> 	54   40131234   40131287    ad0s1      3    freebsd      165    C

I suspect you need to set ad0s1 slice bootable (using S key in fdisk screen).
Flags should be CA, not simply C.

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