Installing FreeBSD-11 on i386

[Heikki Lindholm]

21.4.2017 17.55, James B. Byrne kirjoitti:
> I am going to need some detailed guidance (i.e. hand-holding) on
> resolving this.  The story so far:
>
> 1. Downloaded FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso and ran sha256sum
> which checked out OK.
>
> 2. Burnt a DVD from said .iso image.
>
> 3. Installed FreeBSD on an HP-Compaq DC7700S (2 Gb RAM, 500Gb SATA
> HDD) using the provided installer program.
>
> 4. System drops into a boot prompt during subsequent boots from disk.
> Can't find /boot/zfsloader
> FreeBSD/x86 boot
> Default: zroot/ROOT/default:/boot/kernel/kernel
> boot:
> \
> { repeats all above once }
> boot:
>
> 5. Booting from CD into single user mode works.  Gpart shows this:
>
> =>        40 976773088  ada0  GPT  (466G)
>           40      1024     1  freebsd-boot (512K)
>         1064       984        - free - (492K)
>         2048   4194304     2  freebsd-swap (2.0G)
>      4196352 972576768     3  freebsd-zfs (464G)
>    976773120         8     4  - free - (4.0K)
>
>
> How do I get this system to boot?  Should I have gone the UFS root
> instead of ZFS?  Is that the source of the problem?  If so then how to
> I restart the installer?

Try MBR partitioning first (instead of GPT). Installer DVD should boot 
when selected from your BIOS boot device selector (F12 during boot or 
something like that usually).