Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:58:04 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acer Travelmate 8371 bricked by installing FreeBSD? Message-ID: <4CDC128C.2050809@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1011110800340.5852@wonkity.com> References: <20101111132141.49592qovwxlndt4w@webmail.df.eu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1011110800340.5852@wonkity.com>
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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
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