Installing FreeBSD-11 on i386

[James B. Byrne]

I am going to need some detailed guidance (i.e. hand-holding) on
resolving this.  The story so far:

1. Downloaded FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso and ran sha256sum
which checked out OK.

2. Burnt a DVD from said .iso image.

3. Installed FreeBSD on an HP-Compaq DC7700S (2 Gb RAM, 500Gb SATA
HDD) using the provided installer program.

4. System drops into a boot prompt during subsequent boots from disk.
Can't find /boot/zfsloader
FreeBSD/x86 boot
Default: zroot/ROOT/default:/boot/kernel/kernel
boot:
\
{ repeats all above once }
boot:

5. Booting from CD into single user mode works.  Gpart shows this:

=>       40 976773088  ada0  GPT  (466G)
         40      1024     1  freebsd-boot (512K)
       1064       984        - free - (492K)
       2048   4194304     2  freebsd-swap (2.0G)
    4196352 972576768     3  freebsd-zfs (464G)
  976773120         8     4  - free - (4.0K)


How do I get this system to boot?  Should I have gone the UFS root
instead of ZFS?  Is that the source of the problem?  If so then how to
I restart the installer?

Please reply directly to me as well as to the list.  I get the digest
version of the list.

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9 Brockley Drive              vox: +1 905 561 1241
Hamilton, Ontario             fax: +1 905 561 0757
Canada  L8E 3C3