5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

[Mark Kirkwood]

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:57, Doug White wrote:
> 
>>Try:
>>
>>. Zero off the first megabyte or so of the subdisks with dd or similar
>>  tool.
>>. Force an array initialize from the controller BIOS. Wait for it to
>>  finish.
>>. Install some other OS that recognizes the array, write the MBR and
>>  partition table, then install FreeBSD over it.
>>
>>Some controller BIOSen have been known to peek at the DOS partition table,
>>and it may be jumping off into space if its seeing half a table from one
>>disk, or something like that. These actions should blow away any bogus
>>underlying data.
> 
> 
> I can't try any of these things since I don't have any spare hard disks or 
> much time :(
> 
> The disks I have used have been fresh from the maker so they shouldn't have 
> any trace of FreeBSD on them anyway.
> 

I will have a look at these today.

regards

Mark