From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 00:36:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18892106566C for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:36:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E4E8FC0C for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:36:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so8667545wwf.31 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:36:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.18.194 with SMTP id l44mr17461864wel.87.1293496562055; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:36:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot.local (paris.c-mal.com [88.170.200.60]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m13sm8849008wbz.3.2010.12.27.16.36.00 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:36:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D1930F1.9050902@my.gd> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:36:01 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: root mount error X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:36:05 -0000 Hey michael, First, I'd advise making use of FreeBSD's nextboot utility to test new kernels: http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/localcgi/man-cgi.cgi?nextboot+8 Second, I would suggest reading the handbook's excellent section on upgrading your machine or rebuilding the kernel: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html Now, a likely cause of your problem is the installation of a custom kernel with removed support for whatever your hard disk drive or raid controller is recognized as. Did you reinstall your old, working kernel, or are you actually asking for help doing just that ? On 12/27/10 9:18 PM, Michael BlackHeart wrote: > Hello > > I've got trouble with FreeBSD 8 Stable > First I've put on notebook 8.2 RELEASE amd64, then SVN'ed src's to > yesterday revision I don't remember exact number, but I've have this > problem aobut week or two so it's not so important, also as it doesn't > work on i386 too. > > After installing new kernel I've just build - indeed it always was > GENERIC for both arch's on clean system - I've got an a kernel painc > caused by disability to mount root partition because kernel couldn't > see the drive. By pressing '?' I've sen only acd0 that represents > CD-ROM. > > In debug messages I haven't found anything about ad0 - than hdd was > identified before new kernel was installed. > I've got an HP 6720s notebook with SATA 160GB Hitachi HDD that is > working with diabled SATA native mode. > > I've not found any info 'bout this error in recent 8.Stable so I don't > know how to handle this one. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"