From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 13:21:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502F2106564A for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:21:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erich@alogreentechnologies.com) Received: from nomoremozzie.com (nomoremozzie.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143298FC1B for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amd620.ovitrap.com ([175.156.78.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by nomoremozzie.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o7ODLhDM009131; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:21:44 -0600 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: ALO Green Technologies Pte Ltd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:21:41 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-STABLE; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <20100823083855.ba0f5b48.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008242121.41358.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> Cc: Mubeesh ali , Polytropon Subject: Re: Installation problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:21:49 -0000 Hi, On Monday 23 August 2010 15:01:22 Mubeesh ali wrote: > Hi, > > In my case(stuck at bios splash after freebsd install) ,i had to give it to > acer support ,as i risked losing warranty if i opened/dismantled my laptop. > They have diagnosed harddrive to be faulty(the laptop is hardly 15 days old > :-( ). The lappy was running ubuntu and fedora fine. > this is real bad luck. > Hope this does not repeat with my next try at freebsd . This was just a hardware fault not detected at the factory. This happens. Good luck for your next installation. Erich