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 <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:05:39 -0400, Derek Schwartz < > derekschwart...@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-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
