Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 19:16:32 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive Message-ID: <1325819792.82542.YahooMailNeo@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4F0517BA.1050405@mykitchentable.net> References: <4F0517BA.1050405@mykitchentable.net>
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Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and=0Aburn= ed the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I=A0 installed an older=0AIDE h= ard drive to test the new OS with and did the install. I was very=0Asurpris= ed at the (1) the dvd is actually a live CD if you wanted it to be=0Aand (2= ) the installers screens have all been revamped. I can't say for sure=0Aif = the partitioning part was where it went south on me because I was=0Aattempt= ing to setup some additional partitions but the input screens had=0Ame conf= used and I pressed Auto so it took off and made the default=0Aparitions. I = thought cool, I'll let the install finish and check things out then=0Areins= tall later with the partition setup I wanted. Well the install finished and= =0Athen I attempted to reboot the system but nothing happened. And by that = I=0Amean the computer's flash screen would come up and give me the choice= =0Ato enter the Bios Setup or Boot Menu and that's all. I could not enter t= he=0Abios setup or the Boot menu. The keyboard was still responding as I=0A= could press the CapLock key and toggle the light on and off, but outside=0A= of that the computer would not boot. On the advice of some of the techs=0Ai= n #FreeBSD channel I=A0moved the drive over to another computer which=0Awas= working fine, and the same thing happened. The computer would=0Astart up, = show me the flash screen to do the Bios setup and then nothing.=0AI put the= other drive back in and it worked fine. I tried another computer=0Aand the= results were the same. Now it gets really wierd. I thought that I=0Acould = just make this IDE drive a slave and boot with another drive and=0Acleanup = the mess. But no matter which computer I chose, and no matter=0Ahow I setup= the Slave/Master drive, as long as this drive which I had=0Ainstalled Free= BSD-9.0-amd64 was in the loop, the computer would=0Alockup at the bios scre= en. I could not get anything to boot if this drive=0Awas in the loop. If I = removed it everything was fine. So basically,=0AFreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE bricked= an otherwise good 80GB hard drive=0Aand I can't seem to recover it.=0A=A0= =0AAny suggestions would be appreciated.=A0=A0
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