Booting FreeBSD for the First Time
When your system restarts, one of two things should happen: Either you get a boot menu asking you which operating system you want to boot, or, if FreeBSD is the only operating system on the drive, the system begins to boot straight into FreeBSD. If this is not the case, and your system either hangs or boots right into some other operating system without giving you the option of starting FreeBSD, see Appendix C.
A full-screen textual FreeBSD boot menu, providing several options for booting FreeBSD in various modes and sporting the “daemon” mascot or a FreeBSD logo, is the first interactive part of the boot process. You saw this menu during installation; as you did before, press Enter to accept the default option, ...
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