Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and burned the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I installed an older IDE hard drive to test the new OS with and did the install. ... Well the

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com To: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 5:09 AM Subject: Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I had been running a similar computer with Windows XP with it. The drive was working fine a few moments before I did the install. I have a utility to test hard drives which boots from CD but like I said, when this drive

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Bill Tillman wrote: Well the install finished and then I attempted to reboot the system but nothing happened. And by that I mean the computer's flash screen would come up and give me the choice to enter the Bios Setup or Boot Menu and that's all. The BIOS on some systems

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, January 06, 2012 a las 06:37:02AM -0800, Waitman Gobble escribió: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I had been running a similar computer with Windows XP with it. The drive was working fine a few moments before I did the install. I

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Mubeesh ali
acer ?? i had this with acer.. remove hdd...acess bios change ahci mode and try installing again. On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Friday, January 06, 2012 a las 06:37:02AM -0800, Waitman Gobble escribió: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Bill

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 5 January 2012 22:16, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: ... then I attempted to reboot the system but nothing happened. And by that I mean the computer's flash screen would come up and give me the choice to enter the Bios Setup or Boot Menu and that's all. I could not enter the bios

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Al Plant
Waitman Gobble wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I had been running a similar computer with Windows XP with it. The drive was working fine a few moments before I did the install. I have a utility to test hard drives which boots from CD but like I

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Fbsd8
Bill Tillman wrote: Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and burned the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I installed an older IDE hard drive to test the new OS with and did the install. I was very surprised at the (1) the dvd is actually a live CD if you wanted

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-05 Thread Devin Teske
On Jan 5, 2012, at 7:16 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and burned the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I installed an older IDE hard drive to test the new OS with and did the install. I was very surprised at the (1) the dvd is

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-05 Thread perryh
Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: ... no matter which computer I chose, and no matter how I setup the Slave/Master drive, as long as this drive which I had installed FreeBSD-9.0-amd64 was in the loop, the computer would lockup at the bios screen. I could not get anything to boot if