Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 19:28:11 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MBR problem with FreeBSD 5.3 beta Message-ID: <20040906172811.GA1062@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEELGGKAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> References: <20040906103327.GA21151@nagual.st> <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEELGGKAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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On 06 Sep JJB wrote: > > I experienced the same thing w/ beta-2 > > Just *before* putting an image back I discovered that beta-2 had > > *changed* the LBA setting of my harddrive to another value. > > Putting this back (manualy forcing the bios into using LBA), my > > windows came back on.. Pfftt.. > > > > Def not a nice thing of beta-2 ;-( > > I have the same problem with 5.3 beta-2. > How about some details explaining how you reset the HD to LBA mode. > > This is a bug with 5.3 that needs to be reported back to the > development team so it gets fixed by next weekly beta release. I don't know what to report. Have no idea why this beta does this. I simply *forced* the drive back to LBA mode in the bios, that's it. (normally it's on 'automatic' ;-) FreeBSD-beta-2 had put the drive into 'LRG' (Large). It took me a while to see what happened. You are surprised because the drive just halts and you have no idea why. Now I know this sometimes can happen (even as a bug) it will not take me that long again to find out ;-) -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.10 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilya
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