From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 15:58:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51134106564A for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:58:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 942C48FC0A for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:58:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id RAA15034; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:58:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4CDC128C.2050809@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:58:04 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101029 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: <20101111132141.49592qovwxlndt4w@webmail.df.eu> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Markus Hoenicka , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acer Travelmate 8371 bricked by installing FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:58:17 -0000 on 11/11/2010 17:11 Warren Block said the following: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > >> components of the laptop. Next I put in the FreeBSD 8.1 netinstall CD and >> rebooted. The installation of the basics went fine and showed no problems. I was >> bold enough to use the entire hard drive as the FreeBSD slice. This may be >> important as this may have removed any magic that Acer had put onto this drive >> (there were a bunch of partitions and non-assigned areas, only two of them NTFS >> partitions). > > Can't recall whether it was a netbook or mid-size Extensa, but at least one Acer > I've used with FreeBSD had a first partition that was required for the BIOS. > Don't know if it was loading the entire BIOS from the disk like Compaq in the old > days, or whether it's just some other data. Interesting idea - perhaps in this case it's AHCI BIOS "driver" that was stored on one of those partitions. -- Andriy Gapon