Install Freebsd And Windows 7
Well, formatting is not required, but can help sometimes with USB flash drives with corrupted MBR, or when the Flash Drives's PT is set to GPT instead of MBR.Other problems arise sometimes dealing with USB sticks already containing 2 or more partition inside of them.However if you have a classical USB pen drive, with MBR PT, 1 FAT16/32 partition, like when you buy it at the shop, then just burning the memstick should be ok. To make a double check, and verfying that it's not a USB drive- or burning method- related issue, buy a 50 cents worth CD-R and burn the iso on it using cdrecord (from package cdrtools), growisofs for a DVD-RW (from package dvd+rw-tools) or use a GUI program like K3b or Xfburn.Like, other said above it might also hardware-related. Check first if your hardware is supported in:, bearing in mind that if it's not supported, it might be in 12, CURRENT and consequently in TrueOS.Boot hanging may also be the result of incompatibility between acpi driver and your hardware. If that's the case you should see boot process feeze at some ACPI.PCI task. In that case you should drop to shell at the beginning (instead of booting multi-user mode, go to 3. Escape to loader prompt-submenu in the bootloader ) and run: set hint.acpi.0.disabled='1'and then: bootIf that was the problem, after installation you should completely disable acpi driver at boot, buy editing /boot/loader.conf and adding: hint.acpi.0.disabled='1'If you can't understand where your problem stands, you can turn Verbose option ON, (vebose is available under the 6. Configure Boot Options-submenu, in the boot loader).Another thing, is your UEFI version up to date?
Outdated UEFI ROMs have been reported to cause this boot hanging.Many UEFI firmware options, optimized for Windows, can prevent any other OS to boot well. Did this computer run Linux or Windows before FreeBSD?Anyway, make sure Secure Boot, Fast Boot, Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT-x/VT-d), Onboard Hardware Power Management, CFG Lock, and Wake-on-LAN are all disabled, SATA Mode is set to AHCI, and xHCI mode is set to AUTO.Also, as fall back, try using Legacy Boot (disabling UEFI supoort though).
Many modern UEFIs allow booting in UEFI mode from a 'DriveX' and in Legacy BIOS mode from DriveY. So if you have 2 separate HDDs/SSDs you can install FreeBSD in Legacy BIOS mode on one out of the 2. You could also install FreeBSD in BIOS mode on a USB3.0 (XHCI) pen drive, or a last generation CF/SD, but it would be noticibly slowerFinally, you'd better subscribe and ask on FreeBSD Forums, ask there for troubleshooting with any problem you encounter, reporting what's wrong while booting in verbose mode, as there are very good and true experts hanging on there:))Great help about boot problems is also provided on #freebsd IRC channel on chat.freenode.net. I join it quite often and see several case like yours solved. Ok, sorry I trust you, but this is all very strangeIs it possible you unwantedly downloaded an image for another architecture instead of amd64?
(armv6/7, ppc64, mips, pc98 and sparc64 do not have an acpi driver)If your bootloader is different, then you're definitely on another achitecture, which would explain also why it curiously freezes at the beginning (I saw other posts about boot hanging, but the boot process always stopped aftwerwards, consequently to some incompstible module/driver/service being loaded)You said you verified your memstick image by running it on a VM. What software did you use to do that?Also, did you get the image from the official FreeBSD homepage? It's highly likely you downloaded an old version (10.1 or before) if you don't get the ACPI option after gaving pressed '6'.You shouldn't also download 12, CURRENT, it's the development branch and it's directed towards ecperienced users and testers. It has bugs and iz way more difficult to installto sum up, can you confirm you downloaded FreeBSD STABLE 11.1, for amd64 architecture, from the official homepage?.
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This is the procedure that I used to install Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2, FreeBSD 9.0, CentOS 6.2 and BackTrack 5.1 on the. With FreeBSD 11 comes a new version of Bhyve with a feature that makes installing Windows 10 a snap: a VNC accessible framebuffer driver! This lets any GUI OS, such as Windows, boot into graphics mode on the console. Previously getting Windows working was possible but required a lot of effort to create a custom Read more ยป.