FreeBSD Install

Brandon J. Wandersee brandon.wandersee at gmail.com
Wed May 11 16:49:48 UTC 2016


Philippe Guinoiseau writes:

> Concern: FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1
>
>
> Hello,
> I have a problem with my FreeBSD install.
> Rapidely after start, the install stoppe with this message:
> ....................................................................
> BIOS drive C: is disk0
> BIOS drive D: is disk1
> BIOS drive E: is disk2
> BIOS drive F: is disk3
> BIOS 623kB/3197972kB available memory
>
> FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> (root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org, Fri Mar 25 02 ....
>
> can't load 'kernel'
>
> Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for ....
> OK
> ............................................................................
>
> It's a first install for a OS in this CPU (Intel i5).
> Can you help me?
>
> Regards

As this is a new CPU, I would guess that you also have a new machine or
motherboard, and would in further guess your new machine/motherboard does
not support legacy (MBR/BIOS) booting. Without more information, that's
the most I could say.

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