Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:31:22 +0530 From: Mubeesh ali <mubeeshalivm@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: Installation problem Message-ID: <AANLkTinc=R3LXwb4Bz-yge08drswLHpFf4OYUKsoyLS2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100823083855.ba0f5b48.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <AANLkTiks3u=acnAnQtfyhL=nGeFRa5o2ctfCr5ogOrvy@mail.gmail.com> <20100819071608.130840b4.freebsd@edvax.de> <AANLkTimXa=F%2BN=4fm28OOU_r-b21WsLWiivPzS=q=eYa@mail.gmail.com> <20100820040014.658b8280.freebsd@edvax.de> <AANLkTimRiS_0mtqK5t-cwxxukJguaRkpzxRiQ=V=bkOM@mail.gmail.com> <20100820051254.cc19c3f4.freebsd@edvax.de> <AANLkTi=cL_gXn8B1B12Gz8QtZrM0Lby5h0k5ep1jVC8e@mail.gmail.com> <20100820061235.08600c17.freebsd@edvax.de> <AANLkTimfqZ-7NoKNGOGMjfoudmTKdMatM9Qc%2Boa6w_os@mail.gmail.com> <20100823083855.ba0f5b48.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Hi, In my case(stuck at bios splash after freebsd install) ,i had to give it to acer support ,as i risked losing warranty if i opened/dismantled my laptop. They have diagnosed harddrive to be faulty(the laptop is hardly 15 days old :-( ). The lappy was running ubuntu and fedora fine. Hope this does not repeat with my next try at freebsd . thanks, Mubeesh On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:05:39 -0400, Derek Schwartz < > derekschwartz19@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, I don't have a memory stick, but I do have other hard drives, > > should I try it on the other HD's??? > > Have you been lucky to successfully boot from CD / DVD (1st question) > and install FreeBSD onto the hard disk (2nd question)? Did the result > then also boot (3rd question)? > > In case you suspect the hard drive to be any "faulty" (or at least > acting strange), you could test with a spare disk. Doesn't need to > be a tenmelonhundredterabytes disk just for testing. :-) > > I still suspect some remains of some Linux boot loader still present > on the disk... > > If you have a floppy disk drive in your PC, you can download tomsRTBT, > a Linux that fits onto one diskette. You can then use its dd command > to wipe the first parts of the disk to make ENTIRELY SURE that there's > no interfereing rest of a Linux boot loader. > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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