Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:03:57 +0000 From: "James Seward" <jamesoff@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Still can't boot on 6.0-STABLE > Nov 2005 or 6.1-BETA Message-ID: <720051dc0603141603pda449a6n9dfb29fca8d9ddc5@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello folks, A while back (January) I posted to the list about a problem I had booting 6.0-STABLE built with sources after about November 2005 on my workstation. Since that point, and including (I have now discovered) 6.1-PRERELEASE (as my freshly built kernel identified itself just now), I can't boot. At the point where the kernel should mount my root fs and continue booting, it decides it can't see any disks other than fd0, and presents me with a "mountroot>" prompt. Looking through the scrollback, it correctly identifies my ata controllers earlier in the boot process. A boot -v (captured over serial) is available here: http://sakaki.jamesoff.net/~james/dmesg-broken.txt A successful boot is available here: http://sakaki.jamesoff.net/~james/dmesg-working.txt When I get to the mountroot> prompt, my IDE light is stuck on solid. At the time I initially reported this problem I was running amd64. I have since moved back to i386 (mainly for things like nvidia-driver and win32-codecs), but the problem persists :( My motherboard is an A8V-E Deluxe, and my disks are on both IDE and SATA; the IDE disk plays no role in my FreeBSD boot (it has WinXP on it). FreeBSD lives on my SATA drives. 5.3 and 5.4, as well as WinXP, have no problems with the disks. I'm not doing anything funky like RAID or geom. I did try posting a PR for this a while back, but it never even seemed to be recorded. If I'm sending this request the wrong way, please let me know! I'd love to help get this fixed so I can take advantage of the latest and greatest on this machine :) Thanks in advance, James
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