Installation problem

[Mubeesh ali]

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 <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:05:39 -0400, Derek Schwartz <
> derekschwartz19 at 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.
>
>
>
>
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> Polytropon
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