machine won't start

[Carsten Mattner]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Sascha Wildner <saw at online.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:16:25 +0200, Carsten Mattner
>
> <carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Sascha Wildner <saw at online.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:47 +0200, Carsten Mattner
>>> <carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I tried to install dfly 3.0.2 on an old amd64 box.
>>>>
>>>> When setup was in the configuration phase it didn't allow setting
>>>> passwords with : or other characters.
>>>>
>>>> At that point I hit hard (cold) reset and since that time the machine
>>>> won't leave the BIOS startup phase (POST?).
>>>>
>>>> Took out the CMOS battery for a minute to no avail. Anything else I
>>>> should try? Is it possible that the ROM or CPU has been damaged by
>>>> the installer? I can't even get into the BIOS via DEL.
>>>> I'll take out the CMOS battery overnight and try tomorrow.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It sounds like http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/989
>>
>>
>> Sascha, is it be safe to assume that once I've made the
>> disk functional NetBSD, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD would not have
>> the problem? I'm not sure after reading the bug report.
>
>
> I don't know about *BSD's behavior.
>
> What you _can_ do is to use one of the scripts provided in
> /usr/share/examples/rconfig that we ship. hammer.sh is for a normal install,
> so I'd use that. Note that it assumes you want to install DragonFly to the
> whole disk.
>
> Just boot the CD/IMG and login as root and copy one of the scripts to your
> home directory. Then edit it, supplying your disk name at the top. Also make
> sure that you change all instances of 'fdisk' to 'fdisk -C' (as mentioned in
> the issue #989). Once you've reviewed your changes, run the script (beware,
> it's a csh script, even though it's named '.sh'; yes I know it's silly...)
> and cross your fingers. :)
>
> If the issue is what is described in the bug report, you should have a
> system that boots.

I haven't yet managed to find another machine or adapter
to plug the disk in.

Once I get access how many bytes do you think I have to zero over
to fix the disk?