Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:12:02 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> Subject: Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash Message-ID: <200506301612.03468.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050628232336.S3088@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42BDF580.3040400@paradise.net.nz> <20050628232336.S3088@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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--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--
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