From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 22 10:54:50 2009 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 E1744106568B for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:54:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFF98FC16 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:54:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id NAA26229; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:54:42 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <4AB8ACF2.3080104@icyb.net.ua> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:54:42 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090825) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Faber References: <20090916161327.GB87631@zod.isi.edu> <20090919035214.GA12889@zod.isi.edu> <200909211239.25614.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20090921170516.GA52169@zod.isi.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090921170516.GA52169@zod.isi.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-U Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PATA disks/DVD not detected on ATI IXP 700 - cannot boot (dmesg attached) 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, 22 Sep 2009 10:54:51 -0000 on 21/09/2009 20:05 Ted Faber said the following: > Thanks for getting back to me. It does seem to be fixed in 8.0-RC1 (and > thanks for that fix, too). That is, 8.0-RC1 finds the drive, but... > > 8.0 (RELENG_8, from last night) doesn't seem to find the FBSD partitions > on the drive. It finds the drive and the BIOS partition (slice). It > fails on my old motherboard (not the one above) that boots 7.2-STABLE > just fine. It drops me into the menu to manually configure the root > partition, but doesn't accept either the native device names for the > root partition (/dev/ad0s1a) or a geom label (/dev/label/root). The > list of GEOM devices only includes ad0 and ad0s1. > > The disk isn't dangerously dedicated, but I only added geom labels to > the partitions last night. The glabels work fine under 7.2-STABLE, but > RELENG_8 seems to ignore them. I've attached output from fdisk, > bsdlabel, and glabel in case I'm misinterpreting them. > > I've been waiting for a free moment to write a more complete report, but > since I've got your attention... > > Any ideas? I'll be able to run more diagnostics under 8.0 tonight. This could be another of GEOM_PART_BSD vs GEOM_BSD issues. I think this topic has been discussed several times recently on -current. -- Andriy Gapon