Acer Travelmate 8371 bricked by installing FreeBSD?

[Andriy Gapon]

on 11/11/2010 18:08 Markus Hoenicka said the following:
> Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> was heard to say:
> 
>> The net effect was that wiping out the first partition caused it to stop at
>> boot.  It's been long enough now that I can't recall how I restored the drive;
>> may have taken it out and connected to another machine.  The restore was just an
>> original image of the drive, which I always do (and suggest) before allowing the
>> system a first boot.  Clonezilla is great for this.
>>
> 
> Great news :-(  Next time I'll be wiser, hopefully. But if that strange partition
> is indeed required for booting up, I guess my only option is to ship the brick to
> Acer and have them put on a fresh disk image, given that there are no recovery
> disks included.

Perhaps you would be able to find someone who could create an image of that
partition (and mbr sector, with dd or some equivalent tool) and send to you.

> I'll try to remove the HDD using the trick you mentioned in your other mail, and
> see if Uffe's suggestion is going to work. I'll keep my fingers crossed.


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Andriy Gapon