installing 8.0-current-200906 snapshot

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:37:57AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Jun 19, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:34:49AM -0600, ToyoRunner wrote:
> >> I encounter the same error message. It means that for what ever  
> >> reason
> >> the kernel cannot negotiate DMA transfers with the CD drive. You can
> >> either ignore it or stop the boot loader and run the command: set
> >> hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
> >
> > thank you, I was able to install the minimal configuration.
> > However, on reboot, I can't see where my FBSD is.. So I can't boot it.
> >
> > I can see this:
> >
> > fs0:\boot> ls
> > Directory of: fs0:\boot
> 
> Try "dir" instead of "ls".

no difference. In addition `ls' has on-screen help, but `dir' hasn't

> > Not sure what to do next. And why is loader.efi zero size?
> 
> Typically you run loader.efi by typing
> 	fs0:\boot> loader <enter>

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  06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  loader.efi
  06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  support.4th
  06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  loader.rc
  06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  loader.4th
  06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  skiload
  06/12/09  06:56p       r            0  device.hints
  06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  loader.help
          7 File(s)           0 bytes
          8 Dir(s)


fs0:\boot> loader
'loader' not found
Exit status code: Invalid Parameter

fs0:\boot>



I'll give it another go.

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