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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:58:16 +0300
From:      Mike Barnard <mike.barnardq@gmail.com>
To:        Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE
Message-ID:  <7dc029620901292158j21075583q36ac558ddf82c4f5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901292322570.33814@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet>
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Hi Wes,


> Have you checked the jumper settings on the drive? There may be a jumper
> forcing SATA150 mode on the drive. I'd reset everything to factory defaults
> if possible.
>

It's the first thing I did and I did it for the sake of doing it since this
is a brand new computer straight out of HP. The drive is in factory
defaults. I have done all the basics; BIOS upgrade, drive settings, BIOS
settings.....


> You might be able to use the ata driver from 7.0-R in -stable to boot your
> system. If that works, try searching for the commit that breaks your
> controller.
>

hmmm.... I did not want to go down this track... I was not sure what else i
would break if I did this.


-- 
Mike

Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in
a million chances happen 99% of the time.
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