PC-BSD8.2 and PC-BSD9 Live CD booting problem

[zenny]

1) I installed PC-BSD8.2 in my laptop with the DVD ISO and it works fine. But when I tried to install in my desktop with the working DVD, it halts forever (but the computer does not freeze) forever at the following point:

Verifying DMI Pool Data ..........................
Boot from CD/DVD: CD loader 1.2

Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER .... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader

BTX Loader 1.00 BTX versionis 1.02
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive c: is disk0

2) I tried with the latest snapshot of PC BSD 9 (ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/snapshots/9-...4-DVD-live.iso), it boots fine till the KDE starts and then screen goes black.

I downloaded ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/snapshots/9-...25-x64-DVD.iso and seems to run fine till the installer loads, but have not installed so far.

[Zyzzy]

Hi, I can report the same probelm on my desktop with 8.2 x64 :-(

[benali72]

This appears to be the same bug as reported in this thread --

http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=13997

If possible please test whether it is a combined controller problem. Thanks.

[zenny]

There is not multiple harddrive of my desktop, so the problem of the muliple controller is not valid in my case.

The same 8.2 DVD which installed PC-BSD in one of my laptops (Toshiba) could not go further than

/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x94a334

in another laptop (HP).

So it seems like the PC-BSD is ready for the realtime and maybe the reason why users hesitate to adopt, just my guess. ;-)

[benali72]

Thanks, Zenny, for your information and update. Sorry for the inaccuracy of my post. Best of luck to you.