From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 16:08:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A309106564A for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:08:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de) Received: from smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (smtprelay03.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA8818FC14 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [80.67.16.112] (helo=webmailfront02.ispgateway.de) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1PGZhY-0005Xs-1Q; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:08:40 +0100 Received: from pc51997.klinik.uni-regensburg.de (pc51997.klinik.uni-regensburg.de [132.199.174.149]) by webmail.df.eu (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:08:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20101111170840.184660ptry5nvklk@webmail.df.eu> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:08:40 +0100 From: Markus Hoenicka To: Warren Block References: <20101111132141.49592qovwxlndt4w@webmail.df.eu> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: domainFACTORY X-Originating-IP: 132.199.174.149 X-Df-Sender: 472582 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acer Travelmate 8371 bricked by installing FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:08:42 -0000 Warren Block 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. I'll try to remove the HDD using the trick you mentioned in your other mail, and see if Uffe's suggestion is going to work. I'll keep my fingers crossed. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38