[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD 9 installation failure

[George Rosamond]

On 10/15/12 09:35, Jesse Callaway wrote:
> I wonder if you don't add the user during install does the problem still
> arise?
> On Oct 15, 2012 2:46 AM, "Matt Juszczak" <matt at atopia.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Having an awkward time getting FreeBSD 9 release installed on one of my
>> dedicated servers.  The installation is going back to the beginning after
>> the addition of the
>> secondary user. If we reboot from there,
>> it's unable to boot, so the installation is obviously not completing.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this before?  Any suggestions for debugging?


Let's stick to not top-posting :)

Where is it not booting?  Single-user mode?  Before that?

There must be more information available about where it is when it's not 
able to boot...

Are these new drives?  Previous install of 9.0 on them?  That would 
point to a gpart/gpt issue.

g