Exiting the Sysinstall Program and Rebooting the System

At the main menu, tab over to Exit Install and press Enter. The system asks you to confirm that you want to exit. It then asks you to remove any CD-ROMs or floppies from the drives on your system. After you remove them, select Yes. The system will then reboot.

Note

You may find that you've pressed the Eject button on your optical drive but nothing happened. Don't worry. FreeBSD didn't break your drive; it just locked it to ensure you couldn't accidentally eject the DVD or CD in the middle of the install. If you can't open your optical drive, select Yes anyway and wait until just after your system has started to reboot (when it is counting the memory and such). Then, press the Eject button on your optical drive. It should now open and you can remove the FreeBSD DVD.

Tip

When the system reboots, you might want to go into your BIOS setup utility right away and configure the system so that it will not try to boot from the optical drive anymore. Some systems can hang for a long time while trying to boot from CD or DVD if there is no bootable disc in the drive (or no disc at all). Although most systems will eventually give up and boot from the hard disk, it can sometimes take as long as a minute or more before the system decides it can't boot from the optical disk and goes to the hard disk instead. Disable CD/DVD booting in the BIOS to avoid this problem. (See your hardware documentation for information on how to configure your system BIOS settings.)