Fresh FreeBSD 9.1 installation reboots when trying to boot for first time

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blackout24

Hello,

unfortunately the lack of information I get did not allow me to do some research on my problem before starting this thread.

I'm trying to get FreeBSD 9.1 installed from USB ( dd'ed the memstick image in Linux) on to this machine:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...foCategory&cc=de&dlc=de&lc=de&product=3444032

I installed 2 GB RAM and a Crucial M4 64 GB SSD into this laptop.

Since it is fairly old (2007) and uses NVIDIA graphics (which should have good support on FreeBSD) I did not check any hardware compatibility lists and just tried my luck. My only experience with FreeBSD comes from installing it on a very old PC (from 2001) just to play around for an afternoon and set up SSH on it.

I used the automated guided installation for partitioning. I did not enable crash dumps thinking won't need them immediately. I enabled the services SSHD, NTPD and POWERD. Added one user and rebooted and removed my USB stick.

BTX Loader comes up. I hit Enter. Screen goes black and before seeing anything it does a reboot. I tried switching Single User, Safe Mode, Verbose and ACPI on and off but get the same result.

Anyone got an idea what might be the problem and what I might have to change to get it to boot?

Regards,

blackout24
 
I noticed something strange. When I have my USB as No. 1 boot device and let it boot straight into it to start the installation the loadermenu also causes the PC to reboot. I can only get into the setup when I press "Esc" at the beginning and specify the boot device directly.

I have the feeling that during the installation it might use the USB stick (da0) and incorporate it into the system somehow. I can't remove it from the Partition Editor during installation (Device Busy). ada0p1 freebsd-boot is on my SSD though. After I'm in the system is there some way I can find out if the USB stick is used in the loaders configuration somehow? I have no understanding how to loader works at that point. I thought everything for the system is just dumped to the disk.
 
I installed a FreeBSD 10 Snapshot from memstick to find out if it also happens. It does. When I boot without USB stick it doesn't even get to the loader menu it stops after the kernel text=somenumbersandstuff line. When I reboot and press Esc to tell the laptop to boot from Hard Drive I get into the menu and can boot up.
 
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