Re: Acer Travelmate 8371 bricked by installing FreeBSD?
Andriy Gapon <[email protected]>
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on 11/11/2010 17:11 Warren Block said the following: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > >> components of the laptop. Next I put in the FreeBSD 8.1 netinstall CD and >> rebooted. The installation of the basics went fine and showed no problems. 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). > > Can't recall whether it was a netbook or mid-size Extensa, but at least one Acer > I've used with FreeBSD had a first partition that was required for the BIOS. > Don't know if it was loading the entire BIOS from the disk like Compaq in the old > days, or whether it's just some other data. Interesting idea - perhaps in this case it's AHCI BIOS "driver" that was stored on one of those partitions. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"