From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 30 06:42:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A3216A446 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 06:42:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F5C43D1F for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 06:42:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5U6g67M093921; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:12:07 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Doug White Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:12:02 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42BDF580.3040400@paradise.net.nz> <20050628232336.S3088@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20050628232336.S3088@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2605842.S0s1LW6pJA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506301612.03468.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 06:42:14 -0000 --nextPart2605842.S0s1LW6pJA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:57, Doug White wrote: > Try: > > . Zero off the first megabyte or so of the subdisks with dd or similar > tool. > . Force an array initialize from the controller BIOS. Wait for it to > finish. > . Install some other OS that recognizes the array, write the MBR and > partition table, then install FreeBSD over it. > > Some controller BIOSen have been known to peek at the DOS partition table, > and it may be jumping off into space if its seeing half a table from one > disk, or something like that. These actions should blow away any bogus > underlying data. I can't try any of these things since I don't have any spare hard disks or= =20 much time :( The disks I have used have been fresh from the maker so they shouldn't have= =20 any trace of FreeBSD on them anyway. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2605842.S0s1LW6pJA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQBCw5Q75ZPcIHs/zowRAjg0AKCNZeVxkoE4X52cMxRtojngVvqJRgCXc1Z0 BccbqfmH3zaUgWu61AXDvA== =8C5c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2605842.S0s1LW6pJA--