I installed PC-BSD 7.02 last night and was eagerly waiting to try that after I moved from Windows to linux a couple months ago, I haven't found a distro I love yet, and pc-bsd looks awesome, and I am trying to break into the unix/linux world as I do computer work for a living.
I ran my install and after the reboot instead of getting the graphic setup screen I got a frozen cursor. I tried the option to setup the graphics, I tried the vesa driver run, I tried acpi off, and then I tried safe mode. I got it to start in safe mode but got to a final error of "Fatal error 9" and I couldn't see anything in there that made sense. I searched the net and found a bunch of stuff, but I got lost and most of it on this error was old posts from 2003 and up to maybe 2007, things about disabling stuff in the bios, etc.
The laptop is a Dell E6500 with an nvidia 160 graphics card, dual core Intel processor. In the bios the drive setting is set to "INTEL" for optimal restore or something like that, the other options were ATA and something else, but I left it all at the defaults.
I ran my install and after the reboot instead of getting the graphic setup screen I got a frozen cursor. I tried the option to setup the graphics, I tried the vesa driver run, I tried acpi off, and then I tried safe mode. I got it to start in safe mode but got to a final error of "Fatal error 9" and I couldn't see anything in there that made sense. I searched the net and found a bunch of stuff, but I got lost and most of it on this error was old posts from 2003 and up to maybe 2007, things about disabling stuff in the bios, etc.
The laptop is a Dell E6500 with an nvidia 160 graphics card, dual core Intel processor. In the bios the drive setting is set to "INTEL" for optimal restore or something like that, the other options were ATA and something else, but I left it all at the defaults.