Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

From: Mark Kirkwood (markir_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 07/01/05

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To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

    Daniel O'Connor wrote:
    > 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.
    >

    I will have a look at these today.

    regards

    Mark
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