Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Fbsd8
Bill Tillman wrote: Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and burned the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I installed an older IDE hard drive to test the new OS with and did the install. I was very surprised at the (1) the dvd is actually a live CD if you wanted it

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Al Plant
Waitman Gobble wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: I had been running a similar computer with Windows XP with it. The drive was working fine a few moments before I did the install. I have a utility to test hard drives which boots from CD but like I said, when this drive

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 5 January 2012 22:16, Bill Tillman wrote: ... > then I attempted to reboot the system but nothing happened. And by that I > mean the computer's flash screen would come up and give me the choice > to enter the Bios Setup or Boot Menu and that's all. I could not enter the > bios setup or the Boot

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Mubeesh ali
acer ?? i had this with acer.. remove hdd...acess bios change ahci mode and try installing again. On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Friday, January 06, 2012 a las 06:37:02AM -0800, Waitman Gobble > escribió: > > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Bill Tillman > wrot

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, January 06, 2012 a las 06:37:02AM -0800, Waitman Gobble escribió: > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: > > > > > I had been running a similar computer with Windows XP with it. The > > drive was working fine a few moments before I did the install. I have > > a util

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Bill Tillman wrote: Well the install finished and then I attempted to reboot the system but nothing happened. And by that I mean the computer's flash screen would come up and give me the choice to enter the Bios Setup or Boot Menu and that's all. The BIOS on some systems ex

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: > > I had been running a similar computer with Windows XP with it. The > drive was working fine a few moments before I did the install. I have > a utility to test hard drives which boots from CD but like I said, when > this drive is on a cable c

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Waitman Gobble To: Bill Tillman Cc: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 5:09 AM Subject: Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > Today I encountered a problem which has

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and > burned the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I installed an older > IDE hard drive to test the new OS with and did the install. ... > Well the install finished and >

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-05 Thread perryh
Bill Tillman wrote: > ... no matter which computer I chose, and no matter how I setup > the Slave/Master drive, as long as this drive which I had > installed FreeBSD-9.0-amd64 was in the loop, the computer would > lockup at the bios screen. I could not get anything to boot if > this drive was in

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-05 Thread Devin Teske
On Jan 5, 2012, at 7:16 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and > burned the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I installed an older > IDE hard drive to test the new OS with and did the install. I was very > surprised at the (1) the dvd is

9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-05 Thread Bill Tillman
Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and burned the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I  installed an older IDE hard drive to test the new OS with and did the install. I was very surprised at the (1) the dvd is actually a live CD if you wanted it to be and (2) the ins