From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 6 17:28:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BBB416A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:28:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [217.122.132.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C763643D31 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:28:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Mon, 06 Sep 2004 19:28:11 +0200 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 19:28:11 +0200 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20040906172811.GA1062@nagual.st> References: <20040906103327.GA21151@nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i From: dick hoogendijk Subject: Re: MBR problem with FreeBSD 5.3 beta X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 17:28:13 -0000 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