<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 October 2011 09:26, Kris Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kris@pcbsd.org">kris@pcbsd.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 10/05/11 11:51, Mike Barnard wrote:
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<div>I have been trying to install PC-BSD 9.0-BETA2 on an ACER
AspireOne D255. I am using PCBSD9.0-BETA2-x86-USBFULL.img. I
wrote it to my USB stick using win32diskimager-RELEASE-0.3-r27.
UNETBootin did not work for me with the USB image, could not
boot from USB stick after it wrote image.</div>
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<div>In the default install mode, after trying to start X, I get a
black screen and nothing responds, ALT+CTRL+DEL does get it to
reboot, but I cannot do anything else, all terminals give me a
black screen.</div>
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<div>When I boot in VESA mode, I do get to the install screen, I
select my region, keyboard setting and Installation media, when
I click next, i am dropped into a shell with the error:</div>
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File system full, press any key to drop to a shell prompt and
reboot.</div>
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<div>Ant thoughts on how to resolve this?<br clear="all">
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Sounds like the installer is crashing and writing a .core file which
fills up the memory file-system. Any particular options are you
selecting out of the ordinary which cause this to be reproducible?<br><font color="#888888">
<br></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nothing out of the ordinary, if anything, I leave all the defaults on. Although it does this when I select VESA, when I boot default, I get a black screen on all terminals and I can only force a reboot.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am going to try this with verbose logging and post anything out of the ordinary (hoping I do not end up with a blacked terminals). The other alternative is to download BETA-3 and see if that works.</div>
</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Mike<br><br>Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time.<br>------------------------------------------------------------<br>