Re: Acer Travelmate 8371 bricked by installing FreeBSD?
Uffe Jakobsen <[email protected]>
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On 11/11/10 14.43, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > > I wonder if that would work if I changed the BIOS accordingly *before* > installing the OS. Like you - I did not see this problem before installing FBSD and them it was too late for me After FBSD install I could not boot or get into the bios and change the SATA emu-mode setting - that is where the removal of the disk is needed - since this will enable you to get past that hanging bios point and get into the bios setup again I believe that *IF* I'd changed the mentioned setting before installing FBSD the (hanging bios) problem would never have occoured. > I loathe removing the HDD as I'm not exactly sure > how to get it out without damaging the case - removing the two obvious > screws was not enough to remove the HDD lid. Damaging the case will > make it hard to return the laptop (I can return it within 14 days of > purchase). hmmm I see - I did try to see if it would boot from external usb floppy, usb cdrom or usb memory stick - but it did not seem to get that far into the bios startup... > > Also, did you notice any performance problems after changing this setting? > No not really - I still use this setting - if I change it back to AHCI and reboot it will start "hanging" again - and then the only way to get back into the bios setup again it the disk removal-trick... >> >> Question: did you install the FBSD BootManager or just a std MBR ? >> > > I did, because I use it also on multi-boot boxes. Come to think of it, > it doesn't really make sense on this laptop though. Does your question > imply that the FreeBSD boot manager may screw up things sufficiently > to make booting impossible? > I have no proof at this point - but I suspect the FBSD BootManager to be the one to blame when used in combination with the ahci sata emulation setting... but I'm by no means an expert in these things - and I did never get to the bottom of the problem... /Uffe _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"