[issue989] Installer seems to overwrite partition table

[HennR]

Hi.

I also think that the boot hanger is an acer BIOS specific problem.

But that my partition table was wrong recreated is in my opinion the fault of the installer! As I wrote I even can't mount the HD within an external case with a linux live cd.

HennR


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:27:02 -0000
> Von: Matthew Dillon <bugs at lists.dragonflybsd.org>
> An: Discodestroyer at gmx.net
> Betreff: [issue989] Installer seems to overwrite partition table

> 
> Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> added the comment:
> 
> :Hi there,
> :
> :I installed DF 2 days ago (the 1.12.1 release). I've choosen a primary
> partition for the installation (/dev/hda2 in linux slang) and installed the
> bootlocker on ad0.
> :
> :After the reboot my laptop hung immediately. I couldn't even see the BIOS
> password dialog anymore. Whenever I try to reach my bios setup via F2 it
> crashes on the way.
> :
> :Without the harddisk it is possible to boot the notebook without any
> problems.
> :
> :I bought an external HD case and tried to mount the HD with a live CD: no
> partition table...
> :
> :I can't find any reports for that issue, so I thought I will let you
> know.
> :
> :Do you need any further information about my hardware?
> :
> :And is there a way to recover the table?
> :
> :greets from Germany.
> :
> :HennR
> 
>      Usually boot hangs are due to ide disk translation issues and BIOS
> mode
>      settings for IDE disks, but I'm afraid I can't really help much.  The
>      installer wasn't really designed for multi-boot systems.
> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon at backplane.com>
> 
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