freebsd stable - Nov 2003 - Freeze after "Booting [kernel]"

Dear all,

I installed a new FreeBSD 4.9 machine from CD. The installation 
runs fine but on the first reboot the machine hangs after the
"Booting [kernel]..." prompt. I see the first "/" and then
the
boot process stops. "boot -v" doesn't give more output.

When interrupting the loader at this point I can 'ls' the root
partition without problems. /etc/fstab also looks okay.

The machine has one 120 GB IBM disk. I found some references to 
a wrong geometry so I changed it to the values printed on the HDD 
itself (C/H/S: 16383 / 16 / 63) on a second try. This did not 
work either.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

Best Regards,
Markus

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Markus Oestreicher wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I installed a new FreeBSD 4.9 machine from CD. The installation
> runs fine but on the first reboot the machine hangs after the
> "Booting [kernel]..." prompt. I see the first "/" and
then the
> boot process stops. "boot -v" doesn't give more output.
Try rigging a serial console and see if things are actually progressing.
Very early on the video card gets some initialization and it might be
freaking out, causing your screen to turn off.  If the system is crashing,
you'll see the messages.

Instructions are in the Handbook.

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