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Old 13th September 2011
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That you were able to install with the ramdisk kernel, yet not operate the full kernel, tends to indicate an ACPI related problem.

If disabling ACPI does not resolve the problem for you, please boot the ramdisk kernel once more (use "bsd.rd" at the "boot>" prompt, if you are using i386 or amd64), and capture the dmesg. The ramdisk kernel has mimimal userland tools, but you should be able to copy the dmesg to usb stick, diskette, etc. Additional tools may be available if you mount your drives and chroot into the root:

example of chrooting into your installed system from the ramdisk kernel shell:

# mount /dev/sd0a /mnt
<examine /mnt/etc/fstab, and if /usr is a separate mount, mount it also. Example below assumes sd0e is that partition>
# mount /dev/sd0e /mnt/usr
# /mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt /bin/ksh

Last edited by jggimi; 13th September 2011 at 02:38 PM. Reason: corrected typo
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