From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 20 04:26:14 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 BC07710656C2 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:26:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D20C8FC17 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:26:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-116-86.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.116.86]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6903B3DAFB; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:26:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id o7K4QCAh001955; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:26:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:26:12 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Mubeesh ali Message-Id: <20100820062612.24583f41.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20100819071608.130840b4.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100820040014.658b8280.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100820051254.cc19c3f4.freebsd@edvax.de> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installation problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:26:14 -0000 On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:35:42 +0530, Mubeesh ali wrote: > Hi , > > not sure.This sounds like my issue as well ? After install of bsd on a > laptop with ubuntu ;it does not boot and gets stuck in bios splash . I had > emailed on this earlier. Yes, the "verbosity" of the error message error {0-01} makes me believe that this is already in a very early stage. Maybe some forgotten remains of a Linux boot loader? In this case, trying to boot from USB (or maybe floppy?) could help hard-wiping at least the beginning of the disk, using dd. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...