Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 01:06:45 -0500 From: bill <bill@vultures.cc> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd 10. trashing hard drives? Message-ID: <534E1DF5.7010103@vultures.cc>
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I hadn't tried Free BSD since 4.x, but thought i'd give it a go. I installed a bootable cd of 10. onto a 300gb sata drive in a 2007 emachine with 4gb ram. It completed the install and asked to reboot into the system. From that point it hangs on the "e" machine logo. Will not boot or even go into bios or select boot drive with that hard drive in operation. When hard drive is disconnected, it goes to free bsd logo and offers to boot into single or multi user mode, etc, though there is no hd. Occasionally there is an error that the machine cannot use long mode. I thought i had mistakenly used the 64-bit when i should have used 32-bit, though the same setup was happy with Ubuntu Linux 64-bit. Sooo... i got a 160gb drive off ebay and tried again using the 32-bit install of 10.0. Same result. It seems to install fine, reboots, halts at the "e" machine logo, and goes no further. From that point, it will not boot from cd, usb, or any other media so long as either hard drive is connected. With no hd connected, it brings up the bsd logo and asks whether i want single or multi user mode, etc. In both cases I let bsd use its own default settings without changing any. It seems to partition based on the hd being used with small root, a swap, and mostly another partition. Does 10.x assume a TB+ drive and partition accordingly? Is there any means, bsd or other, i can get into these hard drives and repartition them? As it stands they both seem to have been rendered useless by trying to install an OS. Something i have never encountered. Any advice most appreciated! peace -bill
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