Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:57:18 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "FreeBSD Users Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: ide/pata: change from sec/slave to pri/mater corrupt fstab, no keyboard & other mysteries Message-ID: <539c60b90701142057n3d29e355o38f9a23fcd584ac@mail.gmail.com>
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So I'm feeling pretty stupid, My system is dead because I changed my disk from the secondary to the primary ide controller. Boots, "can't mount" yada, yada. No problem, but I can't type when it says "ufs:<> ... i.e. da0s1..mountprompt>". Ok, so I put it back, edit fstab, reboot. Ooops, yours truly put a typo in fstab, now it won't boot at all, because I can't type at the manual-mount prompt. Question1: Why? I can hit F1 from the loader, and I can choose 1-5 from the beastie menu, so the damn keyboard is, in fact, working, but no text from the mount prompt when I type. I suppose the obvious answer is that something in my boot process disables my keyboard (though I could also type just fine when I booted origonally in safemode on the secondary slave cable). Did the obvious and tried a different brand/connector/etc for the keyboard. Question2: Led me down this path in the first place: why does the system freeze up solid after the ehci hardware message when you boot off the secondary slave disk? Obvious answer, it's doing something ugly with the ata_dma (because that's one of the very few things disabled in safe mode). Boot in safe mode or put the disk as primary master, and voila, no freeze! (Only my fstab is now messed up [compounding matters: the brand new harddisk with the extra-tight connector ripped one plug off my cheapo pata cable, so I can't plug the cdrom back in and start from scratch.]) Question3: Anyone qualified to tell me if question2 is legitimate bug-report material, or expected behavior? Yeach. What a mess. Typical sunday. I can hope for an even better monday, no doubt ;) Thanks, all, Steve
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