Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:39:17 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Cc: Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu> Subject: Re: PATA disks/DVD not detected on ATI IXP 700 - cannot boot (dmesg attached) Message-ID: <200909211239.25614.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20090919035214.GA12889@zod.isi.edu> References: <20090916161327.GB87631@zod.isi.edu> <20090919035214.GA12889@zod.isi.edu>
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On Friday 18 September 2009 11:52 pm, Ted Faber wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:13:27AM -0700, Ted Faber wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm trying to upgrade a machine to a new motherboard (the ECS > > A790GXM-AD3 AM3 790GX) my FreeBSD 7-STABLE system (GENERIC > > kernel, compiled from source on 10 Sept 2009) reaches the point > > where it's going to mount the root file system and can't find the > > disk. It drops me into the manual specification of root file > > system menu, but there are no GEOM-managed disks to choose from. > > [...] > > I managed to boot FreeBSD on this motherboard using a USB key. > Attached is the dmesg from a verbose boot. Any help would be > appreciated. This is a known problem and should be fixed in 8.0. Sorry, I haven't had time to back-port the code. Proabably it's good time to consider testing 8.0-RC1. ;-) Jung-uk Kim
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