I've installed FreeBSD 7 twice today, and both times it hangs with a blank screen and a blinking cursor after the install and final reboot. It's a AMD Athlon 64 X2 system with 2 GB RAM and a 40 GB hard drive (38162 MB, WD400JB). Before installing the first time, I erased it with a single blanking run of Derik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN).
At the beginning of the install, it complained about the drive geometry (how 90s). The FreeBSD installer indicates that the geometry is set to 77545/16/63, that this is wrong, and it's using something better, which turns out to be 4865/255/63. When I go into the BIOS, it reports the geometry to be 19158/16/255. FreeBSD doesn't let me set the geometry to either of the two other ones!
Oh, and one install I used the "FreeBSD Boot Manager" option, and the other time I told it to use the standard MBR option.
So now what do I do?
Kevin