For the record, I tried booting off the i386 floppies using
a USB
floppy drive, and got the same panic-like screen.
Seems all USB devices are problematic.
I'll try to boot off a thumb drive today.
-toby
On Nov 8, 2006, at 2:45 AM, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
>> Hi, Jan. Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> I think I've found the problem.
>>
>> I'm using a USB CD-ROM to install, and it seems to
hit a bug with
>> FreeBSD (#85257).
>>
>> I've tried to burn the ISO to my Sandisk Cruzer 2GB
thumb drive
>> and boot from it, but it never seems to boot. It
just hangs with
>> a blinking cursor.
>>
>> My server has no internal CD-ROM drive, and floppy
support (I have
>> a USB floppy drive) doesn't seem to work with the
amd64 distro.
>>
>> I'm kind of stuck now.
>>
>> Any ideas on any front? 
>
> You can boot off a USB key, you just need to put
something other
> than an ISO image on it. A UFS filesystem and a
bootblock is
> probably a good idea.
>
> However, the easiest thing to do is probably to set up
a pxeboot
> server and boot off an NFS image. For example:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/a
rticles/pxe/article.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Jan.
>
>
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