Hey guys,
I've been trying to install FreeBSD on one of my computers for a while now. It's been consistently getting through the installation without error, but when I try to boot from the new system I just get a flashing _
I've tried using a variety of different settings. The most recent one I tried to use as close to default settings as possible, since I figure that's probably the most well tried path through the install. The options I used were:
Keyboard layout: United States of America Dvorak
domain: my.domain.name
Optional system components: lib32 (32 bit compatibility libraries), ports (ports tree)
Partitioning: auto (UFS), guided disk setup
disk: ada0 466 GB ATA hard disk
Use whole disk
Partition scheme: GPT
Partition:
root password: not putting that here
Set up network: connected
Services to start at boot: sshd, dumpdev
System hardening: none
Add users: added a user for myself with mostly default options, but added user to wheel
exit
Open shell before exiting: No
install complete: reboot
The installation media I used was a USB drive.
Looking at the problem on Google returned some results from a while back about installing to SSDs, but I don't have an SSD in this machine.
This machine can preform an EFI boot, because that's how it booted from the install media.
Let me know if you can think of any specifics I should include that I haven't mentioned here. Thanks for any help you can give me getting this computer running!
I've been trying to install FreeBSD on one of my computers for a while now. It's been consistently getting through the installation without error, but when I try to boot from the new system I just get a flashing _
I've tried using a variety of different settings. The most recent one I tried to use as close to default settings as possible, since I figure that's probably the most well tried path through the install. The options I used were:
Keyboard layout: United States of America Dvorak
domain: my.domain.name
Optional system components: lib32 (32 bit compatibility libraries), ports (ports tree)
Partitioning: auto (UFS), guided disk setup
disk: ada0 466 GB ATA hard disk
Use whole disk
Partition scheme: GPT
Partition:
200 MB efi
462 GB freebsd-ufs /
3.8 GB freebsd-swap
root password: not putting that here
Set up network: connected
Services to start at boot: sshd, dumpdev
System hardening: none
Add users: added a user for myself with mostly default options, but added user to wheel
exit
Open shell before exiting: No
install complete: reboot
The installation media I used was a USB drive.
Looking at the problem on Google returned some results from a while back about installing to SSDs, but I don't have an SSD in this machine.
This machine can preform an EFI boot, because that's how it booted from the install media.
Let me know if you can think of any specifics I should include that I haven't mentioned here. Thanks for any help you can give me getting this computer running!