Re: Acer Travelmate 8371 bricked by installing FreeBSD?
Warren Block <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > Warren Block <[email protected]> was heard to say: > >> The net effect was that wiping out the first partition caused it to stop at >> boot. It's been long enough now that I can't recall how I restored the >> drive; may have taken it out and connected to another machine. The restore >> was just an original image of the drive, which I always do (and suggest) >> before allowing the system a first boot. Clonezilla is great for this. > > Great news :-( Next time I'll be wiser, hopefully. But if that strange > partition is indeed required for booting up, I guess my only option is to > ship the brick to Acer and have them put on a fresh disk image, given that > there are no recovery disks included. The Acer UK site has BIOS downloads: http://acer--uk.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3427/~/updating-the-bios-on-the-travelmate-8331,-8371-and-8371g-series Restore disks may be free, depending on the age of the computer and the unhappiness of the customer. Can't find a direct link on that site, may require email. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"