> :I just downloaded/burned the 1.6-rel image and encounter the same problem. > : > :FreeBSD 4.x installs fine, although the 6.x loader is hit or miss -- > :sometimes it locks up during the countdown sequence, and sometimes it works > :'normally'. Is it possible that my hardware is crap and needs to be put to > :rest? > > I don't think its your hardware. I think the loader is just too complex > and it makes it a real pain to figure out what the cause of these > failures are.
Is the loader neccessarily complex? Or could we simplify things some more? (I know folks have worked on this in the past, so this is just a casual inquiry as to what more could be done.) -- Matt Emmerton
