From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 06:13:35 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96468FDF for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:13:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay.mailchannels.net (si-002-i45.relay.mailchannels.net [184.154.112.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F133C1249 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:13:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender-Id: 101domain|x-authsender|bill@vultures.cc Received: from sn75-na.hostingpanel1.com (ip-10-244-196-74.us-west-2.compute.internal [10.244.196.74]) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CC7FB6114E for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:06:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender-Id: 101domain|x-authsender|bill@vultures.cc Received: from sn75-na.hostingpanel1.com (sn75-na.hostingpanel1.com [10.244.170.26]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA) by 0.0.0.0:2500 (trex/5.0.19); Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:06:49 GMT X-MC-Relay: Neutral X-MailChannels-SenderId: 101domain%7Cx-authsender%7Cbill%40vultures.cc X-MailChannels-Auth-Id: 101domain X-No-Relay: not in my network Received: from [192.168.2.7] (r74-195-199-128.end1cmtc01.enidok.ok.dh.suddenlink.net [74.195.199.128]) (Authenticated sender: bill@vultures.cc) by sn75-na.hostingpanel1.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 56D448BE4F for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 02:06:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <534E1DF5.7010103@vultures.cc> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 01:06:45 -0500 From: bill User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd 10. trashing hard drives? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:13:35 -0000 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