On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:41:54PM +0200, Fabian Wenk wrote: > Hello Mike > > On 28.08.2012 16:05, Mike A wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:34:14AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >> Does setting 'hint.mpt.0.msi_enable=0' in the loader make a difference? > > > I will be happy to try that, but need guidance. This is an install from > > CD (burned from FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso), and I don't know how to > > insert a loader hint in that process. > > On the installed system create, or edit, the file > /boot/loader.conf and add the line like this: > > hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="0" > > Then you need to reboot to test.
I would happily do precisely that, if only I could get the system to install. The failure occurs during boot of the install CDROM, before bsdinstall ever gets started. I suspect that I need to do something like the following: Read in the entire boot CDROM to a directory tree using rsync or equivalent; Edit the boot loader hints file to add that hint; Make an ISO out of the directory tree; Burn it to CDROM; and Try again. If this is flawed, please say where and how. Thanks! -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO [email protected] Tired old sysadmin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
