Important: By default, the installation will not make any
changes to your disk(s) until you see the following message:
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
Last Chance: Are you SURE you want continue the installation?
If you're running this on a disk with data you wish to save then WE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO MAKE PROPER BACKUPS before proceeding!
We can take no responsibility for lost disk contents!
The install can be exited at any time prior to the final warning
without changing the contents of the hard drive. If you are concerned
that you have configured something incorrectly you can just turn the
computer off before this point, and no damage will be done.
2.4.1
Booting
2.4.1.1
Booting for the
i386�
Start with your computer turned off.
Turn on the computer. As it starts it should
display an option to enter the system set up menu, or BIOS,
commonly reached by keys like F2,
F10, Del, or
Alt+S. Use whichever
keystroke is indicated on screen. In some cases your computer
may display a graphic while it starts. Typically, pressing
Esc will dismiss the graphic and allow you
to see the necessary messages.
Find the setting that controls which devices
the system boots from. This is usually labeled as the �Boot
Order� and commonly shown as a list of devices, such as
Floppy, CDROM,
First Hard Disk, and so on.
If you
needed to prepare boot floppies, then make sure that the floppy
disk is selected. If you are booting from the CDROM then make
sure that that is selected instead. In case of doubt, you should
consult the manual that came with your computer, and/or its
motherboard.
Make the change, then save and exit. The computer should now
restart.
If you needed to prepare boot floppies, as
described in
Section 2.3.7, then one of them will be the first boot disc,
probably the one containing boot.flp.
Put this disc in your floppy drive.
If you are booting from
CDROM, then you will need to turn on the computer, and insert
the CDROM at the first opportunity.
If your computer starts up as normal and loads your existing
operating system, then either:
The disks were not inserted early enough in the boot
process. Leave them in, and try restarting your computer.
The BIOS changes earlier did not work correctly. You
should redo that step until you get the right option.
Your particular BIOS does not support booting from the
desired media.
FreeBSD will start to boot. If you are booting
from CDROM you will see a display similar to this (version
information omitted):
Booting from CD-Rom...
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 version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS drive D: is disk1
BIOS 639kB/261120kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x64daa0 data=0xa4e80+0xa9e40 syms=[0x4+0x6cac0+0x4+0x88e9d]
\
If you are booting from floppy disc, you will see a display
similar to this (version information omitted):
Booting from Floppy...
Uncompressing ... done
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS 639kB/261120kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/kernel text=0x277391 data=0x3268c+0x332a8 |
Insert disk labelled "Kernel floppy 1" and press any key...
Follow these instructions by removing the
boot.flp disc, insert the
kern1.flp disc, and press
Enter. Boot from first floppy; when
prompted, insert the other disks as required.
Whether you booted from floppy or CDROM, the
boot process will then get to the FreeBSD boot loader menu:
Figure 2-1. FreeBSD Boot Loader Menu
Either wait ten seconds, or press Enter.
2.4.1.2 Booting for the
Alpha
Start with your computer turned off.
Turn on the computer and wait for a boot
monitor prompt.
If you needed to prepare boot floppies, as
described in
Section 2.3.7 then one of them will be the first boot disc,
probably the one containing boot.flp.
Put this disc in your floppy drive and type the following
command to boot the disk (substituting the name of your floppy
drive if necessary):
>>>BOOT DVA0 -FLAGS '' -FILE ''
If you are booting from CDROM, insert the CDROM into the
drive and type the following command to start the installation
(substituting the name of the appropriate CDROM drive if
necessary):
>>>BOOT DKA0 -FLAGS '' -FILE ''
FreeBSD will start to boot. If you are booting
from a floppy disc, at some point you will see the message:
Insert disk labelled "Kernel floppy 1" and press any key...
Follow these instructions by removing the
boot.flp disc, insert the
kern1.flp disc, and press
Enter.
Whether you booted from floppy or CDROM, the
boot process will then get to this point:
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... _
Either wait ten seconds, or press Enter.
This will then launch the kernel configuration menu.
2.4.1.3 Booting for
Sparc64�
Most Sparc64� systems are set up to
boot automatically from disk. To install FreeBSD, you need to boot over
the network or from a CDROM, which requires you to break into the PROM
(OpenFirmware).
To do this, reboot the system, and wait until the boot message
appears. It depends on the model, but should look about like:
Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC-IIe), Keyboard Present
Copyright 1998-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.2, 128 MB memory installed, Serial #51090132.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:b:92:d4, Host ID: 830b92d4.
If your system proceeds to boot from disk at this point, you need to
press L1+A or
Stop+A on the keyboard, or
send a BREAK over the serial console (using for
example ~# in
tip(1)
or
cu(1))
to get to the PROM prompt. It looks like this:
ok ok {0}
This is the prompt used on systems with just one CPU.
This is the prompt used on SMP systems, the digit indicates
the number of the active CPU.
At this point, place the CDROM into your drive, and from the PROM
prompt, type boot cdrom.
2.4.2 Reviewing the
Device Probe Results
The last few hundred lines that have been displayed on screen are stored
and can be reviewed.
To review the buffer, press Scroll Lock. This turns
on scrolling in the display. You can then use the arrow keys, or
PageUp and PageDown to view the
results. Press Scroll Lock again to stop scrolling.
Do this now, to review the text that scrolled off the screen when the
kernel was carrying out the device probes. You will see text similar to
Figure 2-2, although the precise text will differ depending on the
devices that you have in your computer.
Figure 2-2.
Typical Device Probe Results
avail memory = 253050880 (247120K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0817000.
Preloaded mfs_root "/mfsroot" at 0xc0817084.
md0: Preloaded image 4423680 bytes at 0xc03ddcd4
md1: Malloc disk
Using $PIR table, 4 entries at 0xc00fde60
npx0:
Check the probe results carefully to make sure that FreeBSD found all the
devices you expected. If a device was not found, then it will not be listed.
A
custom kernel allows you to add in support for devices which are not in
the GENERIC kernel, such as sound cards.
For FreeBSD 6.2 and later, after the procedure of device probing, you
will see
Figure 2-3. Use the arrow key to choose a country, region, or group.
Then press Enter, it will set your country and keymap
easily. It is also easy to exit the sysinstall
program and start over again.
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