From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 04:47:15 2010 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 BC7061065696 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:47:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mubeeshalivm@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740608FC24 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywk9 with SMTP id 9so2782953ywk.13 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:47:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=I6b3/sK8id2otF8kHrBQTWpblVANPcMxeF0Y2VOz1s4=; b=Ls/YE//7KxEyDUAWRC0OtmQOTjY65xVCtRBTuYzV8ndAiupqoNvHArByjBPZT1iA8J FpWV7qZBTInuYTQjMTSblHGVFuiDJ/rqtFlxdp70zNu8ZFMh6Uxj8HigzhAsURdeyMlS 23Wcp3pyteSBfR0UER1sb0uxNAufmsrX4905g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Z/LAF9q6e8E5FFOKtQ24oEjVAl7SHD9w4q9HWZdYPRVdPzRJdNrvbSNyE4lqbfbKrW Hh1EKJkbZnKtayY0yRKfL3Fx8t5FMxxtc8I9U9VCgVsYYhetIaopZI9vpdcLjXCes5tE rHfKa/Pxhc1QAzYGA4J/Fd4c0mwiSVOkXTH68= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.19.197 with SMTP id c5mr6617456ibb.91.1282020434501; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.166.141 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:47:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100816223539.00006f3e@unknown> References: <20100816223007.000060d2@unknown> <20100816223539.00006f3e@unknown> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:17:14 +0530 Message-ID: From: Mubeesh ali To: Bruce Cran Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Not booting after freebsd install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:47:15 -0000 thanks bruce. Here the laptop is stuck at bios splash screen. here if i cannot get to bios set up. thanks, Mubeesh On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:30:07 +0100 > Bruce Cran wrote: > > > Specific configurations of partitions (or rather, byte patterns) are > > known to cause some BIOSes to hang during POST - on mine it was > > Windows and FreeBSD. If you can, try switching from AHCI to IDE or > > vice versa. Otherwise you might have to remove the drive and > > reconfigure it on another system with a less buggy BIOS. > > > > For reference, my problem was due to the AHCI BIOS: > > http://communities.intel.com/thread/10768;jsessionid=BE85ABF882B97023AE879865A741FDD6.node7COM > It was solved by resetting the CMOS so I could get into the setup menu. > > -- > Bruce Cran > -- Best Regards, Mubeesh Ali.V.M