i386/113160: [install] mountroot> prompt during first boot for installation

Peter Mulholland darkmatter at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Mar 3 20:50:03 UTC 2008


The following reply was made to PR i386/113160; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Mulholland <darkmatter at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/113160: [install] mountroot&gt; prompt during first boot for installation
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:46:50 +0000

 Hello bug-followup,
 
 For my system I found a solution
 
 The problem was being caused by the "Memory Hole At 15-16M" option in
 the BIOS. This seems to stop md from loading.
 
 Disabling it fixed the problem and the CD boots normally :)
 
 -- 
 Best regards,
  Peter                          mailto:darkmatter at blueyonder.co.uk
 


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