Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot

[ian j hart]

On Monday 12 January 2004 10:48 pm, Doug White wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Kevin Berrien wrote:
> > I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled
> > "4.9 install buglet".
> >
> > I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100%
> > of the time.  After install, after system reboot, the boot loader comes
> > up with F1: FreeBSD, and reboots continually forever.  To test, I made 3
> > installs without issue using 4.8.  So first, I'd like to confirm the bug
> > report, and ask the following.
>
> Please qualify "reboots continutally forever."  It reboots after printing
> the F1: FreeBSD message, or after you press a key, or what?
>
> This sounds like a BIOS issue. boot0 uses only BIOS calls to do its work.
> Lots of problems like this are also caused by bad drive geometry.
>
> What is the partition layout on the disk(s) in the system? Hardware
> description?

Here's my original post for comparison:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200312031933.25176.ianjhart

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