It worth to boot with freebsd live cd or try to install older version of Free bsd, your hard drive is only 40 GB and older version of free bsd Like 4 or 5 should support it.
When you boot to ubunto , do you see freebsd partitions that have been created at installation time ? This link might be useful.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-trouble.html
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin McGregor [mailto:kmcgregor@shaw.ca] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 8:06 PM To: Bigadmin Cc: 'MUUG Roundtable' Subject: Re: [RndTbl] FreeBSD 7 install -- help required!
Well: The hard drive setting in the BIOS was set to auto already. Also, the computer hangs before the FreeBSD menu, right after the last BIOS output, so I can't select any boot option. I haven't tried booting with any FreeBSD live CD, but the Ubuntu live CD (for example) works fine.
Also, I have since reinstalled FreeBSD selecting only the "User" set of packages (no X), and I get the same result.
Any other suggestions?
Bigadmin wrote:
Most of the blank screens that I have seen so far, was related to Display Adaptor Driver And not Hard Drives.
set hard drive setting in BIOS to be auto or default and when you see the freebsd menue At start up select option 4 and boot it in single user mode, if boot in single user mode is successful, hard drive is detected fine, and you should look for display adapter driver.
Have you tried to boot it with free bsd live cd ?
-----Original Message----- From: roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca] On Behalf Of Kevin McGregor Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 8:08 PM To: MUUG Roundtable Subject: [RndTbl] FreeBSD 7 install -- help required!
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
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