From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 07:01:24 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 80B3110656C9 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:01:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mubeeshalivm@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4143D8FC16 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn36 with SMTP id 36so6225329iwn.13 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:01:23 -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:content-type; bh=kWQ76ygWjn1K9D6nzTvLH6KS4+Qu286I/92RW3Cn1DQ=; b=AvEIWDy/hQVzxmkj+9jnG5WW9/Du+qv93LuXeKAzCKlmMIO991iIvAI+ezIJdbuK+f bchq/3+oF82zngwbNmq2wWmag7dYrCf9dPr5I/eS6bWQop1TG1EbGQwfQbI/LJ9lxwCY 6k4RCVsKW+WiDcDSxwirRIMWZODNVjIt51ZiM= 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 :content-type; b=eSIjQ6RGcz1nU1vJMCY2liqdp2AOZmgVtEuXDHOApR+Lgbc7fGeAd+rKCZDZ3696H4 gTc0V0jw6jRSAJZDyxqdU+Z/KfVngViasRNelkmd68/R7uFoyPqHvzU/26RucxTOx1kr oSPp9GYa0ALyubZ1pG34/8USYYSEfzUAUzGuw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.13.130 with SMTP id c2mr5914014iba.24.1282546883419; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:01:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.166.141 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:01:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100823083855.ba0f5b48.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20100819071608.130840b4.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100820040014.658b8280.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100820051254.cc19c3f4.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100820061235.08600c17.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100823083855.ba0f5b48.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:31:22 +0530 Message-ID: From: Mubeesh ali To: Polytropon X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:59:49 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Installation problem 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: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:01:24 -0000 Hi, In my case(stuck at bios splash after freebsd install) ,i had to give it to acer support ,as i risked losing warranty if i opened/dismantled my laptop. They have diagnosed harddrive to be faulty(the laptop is hardly 15 days old :-( ). The lappy was running ubuntu and fedora fine. Hope this does not repeat with my next try at freebsd . thanks, Mubeesh On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:05:39 -0400, Derek Schwartz < > derekschwartz19@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, I don't have a memory stick, but I do have other hard drives, > > should I try it on the other HD's??? > > Have you been lucky to successfully boot from CD / DVD (1st question) > and install FreeBSD onto the hard disk (2nd question)? Did the result > then also boot (3rd question)? > > In case you suspect the hard drive to be any "faulty" (or at least > acting strange), you could test with a spare disk. Doesn't need to > be a tenmelonhundredterabytes disk just for testing. :-) > > I still suspect some remains of some Linux boot loader still present > on the disk... > > If you have a floppy disk drive in your PC, you can download tomsRTBT, > a Linux that fits onto one diskette. You can then use its dd command > to wipe the first parts of the disk to make ENTIRELY SURE that there's > no interfereing rest of a Linux boot loader. > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >