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On 07/08/10 18:32, Gary wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>    
>> Can you try doing a verbose boot (boot -v from the loader)? Also,
>> entering the fixit shell from sysinstall and running 'gpart show' would
>> be interesting.
>>      
> boot -v got the drives to appear. Without it, 'gpart show' returns
> nothing. Thanks for your advice.
>    

Well, I was hoping for debug information more than a miracle cure with 
the verbose boot, but this is OK too. It suddenly working indicates some 
kind of timing issue with the SATA controller initialization, which I'll 
try to look into. Thanks for the report!
-Nathan