On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:24:00 -0700 bsd-lists at BSDforge.com said
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:26:13 +0400 Igor Pokrovsky ip at unixway.org said
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I haven?t been using FreeBSD since 8-STABLE times. Recently I tried to
> > install latest 12-STABLE on my old computer.
> > But even during initial boot up loader hangs. Eventually I was able to
> > proceed with installation after replacing loader in
> > the installation disk with one found in my old system 8-STABLE. The
same
> > happened when I tried zfs on root partition.
> A lot of things are moving around in /boot over the last year.
> Pure speculation; if you're using a usb stick. Mount it from your
> currently running system, and
>
> cd <mount-point>/boot
> rm ./loader
> cp -p ./loader.efi ./loader
STRIKE THAT!
I meant
cp -p ./loader.4th ./loader
sorry!
OH, and you will, of course need to do it as root. :)
--Chris> umount <mount-point>
>
> Then see if it doesn't work for you. Like I said, pure speculation.
> But you indicated an old box. So I think you might find this works.
>
> Best wishes!
>
> --Chris
> >
> > I used MBR partition on PATA hard drive. Motherboard was ASUS A8V
> > (Athlon64).
> >
> > ip
> >
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