4.9 stable release installation probs on x86

Saint Aardvark the Carpeted aardvark at saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com
Tue Feb 24 20:31:39 PST 2004


AdamWilson at Boiseoffice.com disturbed my sleep to write:
> When I boot after the installation the
> boot loader gives an option (F1) to load FreeBSD but when
> I hit enter, F1, or just let it time out and make the
> selection, it does nothing except turn off the monitor and
> reboot the system back into the BIOS, over, and over, and
> over again.  

I had a problem like this a while back with a particular machine;
eventually I tried turning off various settings in BIOS with the disk
(DMA, PIO, etc) and it worked.

HTH,
Hugh

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