From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 00:04:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBAE9106567D for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 00:04:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayasaman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com (mail-wi0-f178.google.com [209.85.212.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74EB08FC0A for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 00:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn6 with SMTP id hn6so2750552wib.13 for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:04:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=i/G9GviiwXTn802wgOhPANzp4MYKyWetLYVbQTYiYKU=; b=Vfb7rWU7d9Z0CSYeFazps/U85kqJQw90bEQZ+D3QAkL9rhSvKWW2efg6AyqS52I6Bv cIKemodsRVAXee2yM+BAkfroArewVMnXfmdJckBWJ7lZKcF56tfIarHfAtlvmlO10nAA B3+S4FHVgOTPvzeCMboIxMMDlw+u/4EksslmKOHsqvu70shZN24mdxvelYIkEswbbOI0 lYNziii+47Dwzr2VDtHXX7QnqmKrDPbA5p4HzFeOE+brmrQN87iA2oVNJ4+ePgrVLhZQ egxMPY+aSuCMu2gDC3Dt3lughZGv16BZXOuPCT037reRGCHSZug7loR60GXWP0yZNwgl yeMA== Received: by 10.216.218.144 with SMTP id k16mr3525941wep.215.1338854643417; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from X220.optiplex-networks.com (81-178-2-118.dsl.pipex.com. [81.178.2.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d3sm37481063wiz.9.2012.06.04.17.04.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:04:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FCD4CEF.7050008@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:03:59 +0100 From: Kaya Saman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4FCC0A31.3000902@gmail.com> <20120603224223.123bc4fa@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> <4FCC99ED.3030409@gmail.com> <20120604185003.0047104c@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> In-Reply-To: <20120604185003.0047104c@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Strange case of vanishing disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:04:05 -0000 On 06/05/2012 12:50 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:20:13 +0100 > Kaya Saman wrote: > >> On 06/04/2012 04:42 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote: >>> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:06:57 +0100 >>> Kaya Saman wrote: >> >> >> I've just tried this and lost my whole system..... >> >> My boot disk is not labeled to work with ahci as it just has >> standard formatting on there. >> >> Need to remove the ahci_load="YES" from /boot/loader.conf file now. > Ack, my apologies. Forgot about that. > > Yeah, you will need to do it from the loader prompt if you want to > test it. > > Unless you are booting off of gmirror or have /etc/fstab configured > with something else that will automatically be found, you will have a > problem. > > But from the loader prompt it should be... > > load /boot/kernel/ahci.kp > show rootdev > > If rootdev shows any thing other than shows boot device as ad, > rewrite it as ada, using the set command. See loader(8). > > This will get it to boot, although it will error and drop to single > user mode as /etc/fstab contains the old stuff. Just manually mount > everything and continue. > > At this point it should be up and running and able to test it out. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Thanks for the information! I had a small issue at the bootloader> prompt, my USB keyboard didn't work as in it seems the kernel modules weren't loaded in order for the keys to function. Not sure how to get round that one :-) Regards, Kaya