> FreeBSD hangs without errors early in the install process on my computer.
> What makes this system unusual is that it
> is "legacy free" which means it has none of the traditional I/O ports (no
> serial, parallel, PS/2 or even floppy interface). All I/O is via one of
> the five USB ports on the case.
A friend of mine recently ran into this problem on an embeded system. The solution for him on 5.x was to enter the following at the loader prompt to disable the keyboard and floppy probes because they tend to hang:
hint.atkbdc.0.disabled=1 hint.atkbd.0.disabled=1 hint.fdc.0.disabled=1
Unfortnaly, you can't do that since you don't have a serial port. The one hack I can think of would be to try to PXE boot the CD image from another machine. You could then modify the loader.conf on the pxe image to force these settings.
These drivers are broken and need to be fixed since I'm sure this problem will only become more common.
Thanks Brooks.
I'll be trying to find a "normal" computer to install FreeBSD. Hopefully with it, I can try to implement some of the suggestions being offered - including a PXE boot.
I found the LOADER.CNF file on the CD. If I were to burn the CD to a CDRW, could I edit that file manually and then boot from the CD?
Thor
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