Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

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To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:12:02 +0930

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:57, Doug White wrote:
> Try:
>
> . Zero off the first megabyte or so of the subdisks with dd or similar
> tool.
> . Force an array initialize from the controller BIOS. Wait for it to
> finish.
> . Install some other OS that recognizes the array, write the MBR and
> partition table, then install FreeBSD over it.
>
> Some controller BIOSen have been known to peek at the DOS partition table,
> and it may be jumping off into space if its seeing half a table from one
> disk, or something like that. These actions should blow away any bogus
> underlying data.

I can't try any of these things since I don't have any spare hard disks or
much time :(

The disks I have used have been fresh from the maker so they shouldn't have
any trace of FreeBSD on them anyway.

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