Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:03:59 +0100 From: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange case of vanishing disk Message-ID: <4FCD4CEF.7050008@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120604185003.0047104c@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> References: <4FCC0A31.3000902@gmail.com> <20120603224223.123bc4fa@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> <4FCC99ED.3030409@gmail.com> <20120604185003.0047104c@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net>
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On 06/05/2012 12:50 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:20:13 +0100 > Kaya Saman<kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 06/04/2012 04:42 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote: >>> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:06:57 +0100 >>> Kaya Saman<kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote: >> <snip> >> >> 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
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