Booting Issues - ACPI and HD

[Norberto Meijome]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:12:49 -0600
Ryan Winograd <rylwin at houston.rr.com> wrote:


> Now, I have been successful booting Knoppix-STD (linux liveCD), but
> did not have time (unfortunately) to try mounting the drive. I'll try
> that when I get a chance. I say this because I'm not sure if the
> drive is broken or the data is corrupted. Or there may be some other
> cause.

i doubt linux will be able to read / use / fix your bsd slices. burn a
disc with Freesbie (live FreeBSD cd) and use that, or , even better,
the fixit cd (is it a standalone CD or just an option in the
sysinstall menu?) from your installed version of freebsd.

B