Re: Not booting after freebsd install
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:17:14 +0530 Mubeesh ali mubeeshal...@gmail.com wrote: thanks bruce. Here the laptop is stuck at bios splash screen. here if i cannot get to bios set up. You'll need to either follow instructions for resetting the CMOS battery on the laptop (probably involving partial disassembly), or remove the drive and repartition it in a differentc computer. -- Bruce ___ 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
Re: Not booting after freebsd install
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Not booting after freebsd install
Hi, i have an acer 5745 which had ubuntu running not booting after an attempted freebsd install .i understand that i might have wiped by choosing auto partition :-( and had not written mbr so that we could manage all from grub .now the laptop is stuck at bios splash screen.it refuses to go even to bios setup. please advice how i can recover and start over Thanks mubeesh -- Best Regards, Mubeesh Ali.V.M ___ 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
Re: Not booting after freebsd install
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:54:51 +0530 Mubeesh ali mubeeshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i have an acer 5745 which had ubuntu running not booting after an attempted freebsd install .i understand that i might have wiped by choosing auto partition :-( and had not written mbr so that we could manage all from grub .now the laptop is stuck at bios splash screen.it refuses to go even to bios setup. please advice how i can recover and start over Specific configurations of partitions (or rather, byte patterns) are known to cause some BIOSes to hang during POST - on mine it was Windows and FreeBSD. If you can, try switching from AHCI to IDE or vice versa. Otherwise you might have to remove the drive and reconfigure it on another system with a less buggy BIOS. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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
Re: Not booting after freebsd install
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:30:07 +0100 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: Specific configurations of partitions (or rather, byte patterns) are known to cause some BIOSes to hang during POST - on mine it was Windows and FreeBSD. If you can, try switching from AHCI to IDE or vice versa. Otherwise you might have to remove the drive and reconfigure it on another system with a less buggy BIOS. For reference, my problem was due to the AHCI BIOS: http://communities.intel.com/thread/10768;jsessionid=BE85ABF882B97023AE879865A741FDD6.node7COM It was solved by resetting the CMOS so I could get into the setup menu. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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
Re: Not booting after freebsd install
thanks bruce. Here the laptop is stuck at bios splash screen. here if i cannot get to bios set up. thanks, Mubeesh On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:30:07 +0100 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: Specific configurations of partitions (or rather, byte patterns) are known to cause some BIOSes to hang during POST - on mine it was Windows and FreeBSD. If you can, try switching from AHCI to IDE or vice versa. Otherwise you might have to remove the drive and reconfigure it on another system with a less buggy BIOS. For reference, my problem was due to the AHCI BIOS: http://communities.intel.com/thread/10768;jsessionid=BE85ABF882B97023AE879865A741FDD6.node7COM It was solved by resetting the CMOS so I could get into the setup menu. -- Bruce Cran -- Best Regards, Mubeesh Ali.V.M ___ 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
