Re: Acer Travelmate 8371 bricked by installing FreeBSD?
Uffe Jakobsen <[email protected]>
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Hi Marcus, On 11/11/10 13.21, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > I was bold enough to use the > entire hard drive as the FreeBSD slice. This may be important as this > may have removed any magic that Acer had put onto this drive (there > were a bunch of partitions and non-assigned areas, only two of them > NTFS partitions). I've had similar considerations - but later it was revealed that it was of no relevance for the problem... > In any case, when I attempted to reboot into the > installed FreeBSD, the box no longer made it past the initial Acer > splash screen. Neither F2 (edit BIOS settings) nor F12 (boot device > menu) are responsive, only Ctl+Alt+Del and the power switch do have > any effect. > > This left me with a brick, as none of the remedies that Google > suggested (things like take out battery, unplug power cord, press > mains switch for 30 sec, reattach power cord and boot) would get this > box past the initial splash screen. > likewise here - the system appeared to hang in the bios... > > Did anyone run into similar problems before? Is there any possibility > that the box was indeed bricked by installing FreeBSD, or did I > experience a bad hair day? > As we've discussed before I'm using an Acer Aspire 1410 (11.6") with FreeBSD 8.1. During initial installation I've expierienced something similar with my Acer system... My guess is that if you remove/unplug your HDD - it will not hang anymore... The workaround for me was to remove the disk - go into the bios - and configure the sata emulation from ahci mode to ide "legacy/compatible" mode - or whatever they called it in the bios (I've no access to the notebook right now) After that you can put back the HDD and boot again - and it should work. I'd almost forgot about this problem since it is 6 months ago. My suspicion at that time was around the FBSD BootManager that I have installed - but I never got around to isolate (and report) the problem... Question: did you install the FBSD BootManager or just a std MBR ? I hope it helps. Kind regards Uffe Jakobsen :-) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"