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I have successfully (I think, anyway) done a fresh install of PC-BSD 8.2 on a dual processor AMD/64 machine with 8G ram and a 35G Quantum Atlas III SCSI drive on an AH2940UW controller. The install appears to run fine. However, when I try to boot the resulting system, this is what I see:
and there, the system hangs. Furthermore, if I put the install disk back into the DVD drive to try to bring up a live system so I can, maybe, do something about this, it also hangs after displaying:
Any suggestions on what I should do? If I could, at least, bring up a live system from the CD, I might be able to look around and do something. As it is, I'm completely stuck. Is there, perhaps, a problem with having too much RAM on this system? I could pull it back to 4G very easily, of course, if that is the issue.
-Lyman
I have successfully (I think, anyway) done a fresh install of PC-BSD 8.2 on a dual processor AMD/64 machine with 8G ram and a 35G Quantum Atlas III SCSI drive on an AH2940UW controller. The install appears to run fine. However, when I try to boot the resulting system, this is what I see:
Code:
F1 FreeBSD
F6 PXE
Boot: F1
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
Consoles: internal video/keyboardand there, the system hangs. Furthermore, if I put the install disk back into the DVD drive to try to bring up a live system so I can, maybe, do something about this, it also hangs after displaying:
Code:
CD loader 1.2
Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the boot loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0Any suggestions on what I should do? If I could, at least, bring up a live system from the CD, I might be able to look around and do something. As it is, I'm completely stuck. Is there, perhaps, a problem with having too much RAM on this system? I could pull it back to 4G very easily, of course, if that is the issue.
-Lyman
