My bet is that either are you using a SATA or a large size IDE disk. 
AFAIK this can help:
Entering the C/H/S manual.
Switching to a small old IDE disk.
Switching HD vendor.  

/Perry

--- Den ons 29/10/08 skrev Chris Flugstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Fra: Chris Flugstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Emne: Re: [pfSense Support] Streaming characters while install AFTER 
> installed to HD
> Til: [email protected]
> Dato: onsdag 29. oktober 2008 05.53
> Installed with GRUB and now GRUB loads, then FREEBSD default
> startup, 
> it starts to go , thing spins and then i get the same
> screen of random
> charchters streaming down the screen.  bios isnt the
> newest, but is
> 2.04, and now its 2.05.  not sure if that wou'd make
> the difference. 
> im trying different bios settings to see if that'd do
> it, but its wierd
> that it'd boot from the CD but not from the HD. 
> 
> 
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> 
> Chris Flugstad wrote:
> 
>   
> You can install it with GRUB?  I think i've just been
> flying through
> the install process.  
> 
>   
> 
> -chris flugstad
> 
> Chris Buechler wrote:
>   
>     On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Chris Flugstad
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>     
>       After booting from the live cd, and then installing
> to the HD, it starts to
> boot, bios goes by then bsd looks like its gonna boot, but
> then characters
> just stream the page really fast.  It booted fine from the
> CD obviously
> since i installed it from the CLI.  I tried installing in
> single proc, and
> dual proc, as it is a dual opteron.  it has a tyan K8sr
> mobo.  not sure if
> this is a hardware issue or i need to disable/enable
> something in the bios.
> 
>     
>     
>     
> Try selecting grub during install, and check for a BIOS
> update if that
> doesn't resolve it.
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