Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:54:55 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot machine after upgrade Message-ID: <20090109145455.GA50881@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090109134342.5fb692f7.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090109122720.GA38699@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20090109134342.5fb692f7.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:42PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:27:20 +0000, Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> wrote: > > Anybody got any idea on what's going on & how to fix it? > > The messages you presented seem to indicate that ad0 is not found. > It's not listed in the available devices, and boot fails. > > Could you check its presence using a FreeBSD / FreeSBIE boot CD? I tried booting a FreeBSD CD & going into sysinstall & then fdisk but it said it couldn't find any disks. freesbie.org is unfortunately down :( > > I'm surprised the hard disk isn't detected at all... are you using > the GENERIC kernel? I'm not using GENERIC but IIRC I've only stripped out NIC's etc. I booted with booting verbose and it's showing this before it jumps to the mountroot> prompt: ata1: SATA connect time=0ms ata1: SIGNATURE: eb140101 ata1: ahci_reset devices=0x4<ATAPI_MASTER> ata1: reinit done .. ata2: reiniting channel .. ata2: SATA connect time=0ms ata2: SIGNATURE: 00000101 ata1: ahci_reset devices=0x1<ATA_MASTER> ata2: reinit done .. ata2: reiniting channel .. *repeats* ATA PseudoRAID loaded Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2 mountroot> > > -- > Polytropon Hope that helps some more. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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