new 6.1 install will not boot

[Perry Hutchison]

> Do you get the FreeBSD boot menu ?
> 
> Pramod Venugopal
> pramod at dvnull.org

No.  The BIOS clears the screen and loads the boot sector, then nothing.

> On Aug 14, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Perry Hutchison wrote:
> 
> > I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a Dell Pentium III, and I must have
> > done something wrong -- or missed a step -- somewhere along the way.
> >
> > When trying to boot, I do not get even as far as the situation
> > described in sec. 4.2.5 of the installation instructions.  The system
> > hangs, with a completely blank screen and the curson on (I think) the
> > second line, immediately after the BIOS loads the boot record from the
> > FreeBSD partition.  Keyboard input is ignored except for CtrlAltDel,
> > which reboots and hangs again the same way.  Booting a Windows 98 CD
> > and running fdisk confirms that the FreeBSD partition is active.
...