From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 13:12:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487D0106566B for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:12:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uffe@uffe.org) Received: from mail.starion.dk (mx0.starion.dk [83.95.112.88]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D15C8FC16 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19840 invoked by uid 528); 11 Nov 2010 13:12:35 -0000 Received: from 212.130.59.4 ([212.130.59.4]) by mail.starion.dk ([192.168.0.100]) with ESMTP via TCP; 11 Nov 2010 13:12:35 -0000 Message-ID: <4CDBEBAD.7080505@uffe.org> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:12:13 +0100 From: Uffe Jakobsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20101111132141.49592qovwxlndt4w@webmail.df.eu> In-Reply-To: <20101111132141.49592qovwxlndt4w@webmail.df.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Acer Travelmate 8371 bricked by installing FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:12:16 -0000 Hi Marcus, On 11/11/10 13.21, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > I was bold enough to use the > entire hard drive as the FreeBSD slice. This may be important as this > may have removed any magic that Acer had put onto this drive (there > were a bunch of partitions and non-assigned areas, only two of them > NTFS partitions). I've had similar considerations - but later it was revealed that it was of no relevance for the problem... > In any case, when I attempted to reboot into the > installed FreeBSD, the box no longer made it past the initial Acer > splash screen. Neither F2 (edit BIOS settings) nor F12 (boot device > menu) are responsive, only Ctl+Alt+Del and the power switch do have > any effect. > > This left me with a brick, as none of the remedies that Google > suggested (things like take out battery, unplug power cord, press > mains switch for 30 sec, reattach power cord and boot) would get this > box past the initial splash screen. > likewise here - the system appeared to hang in the bios... > > Did anyone run into similar problems before? Is there any possibility > that the box was indeed bricked by installing FreeBSD, or did I > experience a bad hair day? > As we've discussed before I'm using an Acer Aspire 1410 (11.6") with FreeBSD 8.1. During initial installation I've expierienced something similar with my Acer system... My guess is that if you remove/unplug your HDD - it will not hang anymore... The workaround for me was to remove the disk - go into the bios - and configure the sata emulation from ahci mode to ide "legacy/compatible" mode - or whatever they called it in the bios (I've no access to the notebook right now) After that you can put back the HDD and boot again - and it should work. I'd almost forgot about this problem since it is 6 months ago. My suspicion at that time was around the FBSD BootManager that I have installed - but I never got around to isolate (and report) the problem... Question: did you install the FBSD BootManager or just a std MBR ? I hope it helps. Kind regards Uffe Jakobsen :-)