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Chameleon => Bug Reports => Topic started by: SA22C on September 15, 2009, 01:47:31 AM
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I recently started getting the following error:
EBIOS Read Error 0x04 (followed by memory address)
These errors occur for several minutes, spanning quite a few addresses. Finally, I get to the Chameleon GUI and am able to boot into OS X or Windows or whatever. I have tried reinstalling Chameleon and re-flashing my BIOS with no result.
This error cropped up with no warning and without anything having changed that I can see. RC3 has been installed for more than a week and I've had the same BIOS version for months.
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If anyone is interested, this error arose from a corrupted partition map on one of the hard drives in my box that had nothing to do with booting OS X or Windows. Reformatting the drive removed the timeout issues.
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If anyone is interested, this error arose from a corrupted partition map on one of the hard drives in my box that had nothing to do with booting OS X or Windows. Reformatting the drive removed the timeout issues.
How did you identify the problem partition? Just so we don't need to reformat every partition looking for it.
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If anyone is interested, this error arose from a corrupted partition map on one of the hard drives in my box that had nothing to do with booting OS X or Windows. Reformatting the drive removed the timeout issues.
How did you identify the problem partition? Just so we don't need to reformat every partition looking for it.
I can shut off SATA ports one by one in the BIOS of my system, so after a few trial-and-errors, I was able to identify the problem drive. After that, I backed up the data and gave the drive a fresh formatting. It was an NTFS drive, one that had never been used as a boot device before.
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Thanks for reply. Don't have that ability in my BIOS, but good to know how it was done anyway.
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You could always physically pull all the drives off the board except your boot volume and then add them back one-at-a-time. The weird thing is that this particular error tended to show up on boot CDs and DVD's, not on HDD's. ???