From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 11:21:31 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 266F4106566C for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 11:21:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from btillman99@yahoo.com) Received: from nm39-vm1.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm39-vm1.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [72.30.239.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD19A8FC16 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 11:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.215.140] by nm39.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Jan 2012 11:21:29 -0000 Received: from [98.139.212.194] by tm11.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Jan 2012 11:21:29 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1003.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Jan 2012 11:21:29 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 951299.73555.bm@omp1003.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 87374 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Jan 2012 11:21:29 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1325848889; bh=+MAyZf82LjsW1AvjHYXY6vZkEKqwgp1pfaJd6zHIGdw=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=TiXZoCvQXD8H/YKaISXimSD1UaGLnwYJxIFR1gn63mwTfZwsQW0p8Z9rCxBvUVaiHG/iLCY72hwEnt4jtFoc+xqpub5EbY9aFd9YjTfvAhxQoxEry0FyiuIjjgTf1y2BSDKrAI0RNW/LfuZM1aeDcxVaL0S1jqroDe8vQT48lmY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=EgUyVZwo4I39hl352exrhtQ1yQSs9ARadozkiulL+6rn66ghRv8o69vdprver3/hLLObqSbmgS2nu4BUY0KvBiCNcER+ZTMuzgj22hD/EyHwecfanDkmvB2VSApBPZijSVytdGP8j+poJQPqyLlOl8zpAf5kC9fJqDX7R4Cj1rs=; X-YMail-OSG: Du1..QsVM1kyA6tSNlJvQo_eAZz8HEcwAfGyH4vN57.AHuY fwk0z.iGBkI4YtLcXnNzsgbPuHYB7ubraOR4Vr9gLlwl_xSaX_J8df11ESt7 ZK.G5we2iYM0TcPnkHALNY88RUXNPPgkksu1JulEZibC_TUGnKagxFsnVjRr EwamuWiSI5iiqZ81VGOdTRyxMiMtG7lIRn.eylaEPrDUYIX_WMhwJYQc05bK n_EmqXHOkHQ7xSE3IiVNq2XzSBhF6SeCFVLAl483lyRtRPZda7VK3qjr46i1 zo2gQV3LIGu4ucDZuyJSiRL7HxZ35YTAuQOcGxdZH54ZXwAvMT6prDPATBp4 jDUqrjUYcAG.KPINL_j04cJDqXJVZpE4kO7NrXyzLjH83FNV5nWFeS2JvO9H yCLMHdhtcrRLw17kT84cz6vhjSC8cjEYNABwnC_tKDAm7gtpplshpKUmEJM7 2Q.MCc1JT Received: from [98.203.44.66] by web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:21:28 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.115.331698 References: <4F0517BA.1050405@mykitchentable.net> <1325819792.82542.YahooMailNeo@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1325848888.86578.YahooMailNeo@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 03:21:28 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman To: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Bill Tillman List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:21:31 -0000 =0A=0A =0A=0A________________________________=0A=0AFrom: Waitman Gobble =0ATo: Bill Tillman =0ACc: FreeBSD= Questions =0ASent: Friday, January 6, 2012= 5:09 AM=0ASubject: Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive=0A=0A=0AOn = Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Bill Tillman wrote:=0A= =0A> Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and= =0A> burned the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I=A0 installed an olde= r=0A> IDE hard drive to test the new OS with and did the install.=0A=0A...= =0A=0A> Well the install finished and=0A> then I attempted to reboot the sy= stem but nothing happened. And by that I=0A> mean the computer's flash scre= en would come up and give me the choice=0A> to enter the Bios Setup or Boot= Menu and that's all. I could not enter the=0A> bios setup or the Boot menu= .=0A=0A...=0A=0A> So basically,=0A> FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE bricked an otherwis= e good 80GB hard drive=0A> and I can't seem to recover it.=0A>=0A>=0A>=0AHi= Bill,=0A=0AWhat was going on with this drive before the install?=A0 ie, it= was sitting=0Aon the self not being used, it was a daily use machine runni= ng something=0Aelse, ... etc.=0AAt the moment it sounds to me like an incon= venient hardware failure.=0A=0AWaitman=0A__________________________________= _____________=0Afreebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list=0Ahttp://lists.f= reebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions=0ATo unsubscribe, send any ma= il to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=0A=0AI had been running a= similar computer with Windows XP with it. The =0Adrive was working fine a = few moments before I did the install. I have=0Aa utility to test=A0hard dri= ves which boots from CD but like I said, when=0Athis drive is on a cable co= nnected to any machine, booting is a =0Anon-option. I have an old IDE contr= oller=A0but it's ISA=A0and I have=0Anot ISA slots on this computer.=A0Looks= like I may have to try the USB=0Adrive boot option to get on with this res= cue.