Loader hangs on the latest -STABLE

[Chris]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:24:00 -0700 bsd-lists at BSDforge.com said

> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:26:13 +0400 Igor Pokrovsky ip at unixway.org said
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I haven’t been using FreeBSD since 8-STABLE times. Recently I tried to
> > install latest 12-STABLE on my old computer.
> > But even during initial boot up loader hangs. Eventually I was able to
> > proceed with installation after replacing loader in 
> > the installation disk with one found in my old system 8-STABLE. The same
> > happened when I tried zfs on root partition.
> A lot of things are moving around in /boot over the last year.
> Pure speculation; if you're using a usb stick. Mount it from your
> currently running system, and
> 
> cd <mount-point>/boot
> rm ./loader
> cp -p ./loader.efi ./loader
STRIKE THAT!
I meant
cp -p ./loader.4th ./loader

sorry!

OH, and you will, of course need to do it as root. :)

--Chris
> umount <mount-point>
> 
> Then see if it doesn't work for you. Like I said, pure speculation.
> But you indicated an old box. So I think you might find this works.
> 
> Best wishes!
> 
> --Chris
> > 
> > I used MBR partition on PATA hard drive. Motherboard was ASUS A8V
> > (Athlon64).
> > 
> > ip
> > 
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