On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Diego Arias <dak....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Gould <andrewlylego...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Diego Arias <dak....@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Andrew Gould >> > <andrewlylego...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> I purchased an HP Pavilion p6510f. I cannot boot either FreeBSD 8.1 >> >> (amd64) or OpenSUSE 11.3 Gnome Live CD unless I change the hard drive >> >> mode from RAID to IDE. Unfortunately, that damages my Windows 7 >> >> installation. (The computer is currently being restored to factory >> >> state.) >> >> >> >> Is there an option I can pass to the kernel to bootup the FreeBSD >> >> installation DVD while the hard drive is in RAID mode? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Andrew >> > >> > Do you have a RAID? >> > >> >> I don't have a RAID that I know of. The computer came with Windows 7 >> Home Premium 64 and the hard drive set to RAID in the BIOS. >> >> The computer contains only one hard drive and one DVD writer. The >> hard drive has 3 partitions: a small partition, the OS partition and >> the recovery partition. > > Do you try restoring with IDE instead of RAID? >
I don't think that will work. I've read online that you have to reinstall Windows to change modes. Restoring maintains the old Windows configuration. I've been told that *Ubuntu live CD's can boot on computers with RAID mode on. That's why I was hoping that there was a kernel option I could use at bootup. Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"