From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 15 19:11:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E98816A41F for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:11:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from mail.dti.supsi.ch (mail.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.153.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E48B843D5A for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:11:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from [193.5.152.27] (pcm2027.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.152.27]) by mail.dti.supsi.ch (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jAFJBr6x002466 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:11:53 +0100 Message-ID: <437A32AE.1040505@supsi.ch> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:10:38 +0100 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY time out X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:11:56 -0000 Hi. Could any kind soul help me out, please? Please, also reply to my mailbox as I'm not on the list. I just upgrade a i386 FreeBSD box from REL-5.3.p15 to REL-5.3.p23. after installkernel I could reboot to single usermode and did installworld, but after that I can no longer reboot.. rebooting with the old kernel doesn't help. I believe I did something wrong with mergemaster.. maybe I broke something in /boot/devices.hints.. the error messages: unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (irq) ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out I could just make a dump of the various filesystems, reinstall and restore my data.. but if I could just fix the problem without reinstalling would be much better. What happen if I just remove or cut -s0 /boot/devices.hints ? ..or.. what else? Thank you! -- Robi