From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 25 17:10:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E6A16A41F for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:10:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tim.howe@celebrityresorts.com) Received: from knuth.hurstdog.org (knuth.hurstdog.org [69.55.236.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57EFC43D49 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:10:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tim.howe@celebrityresorts.com) Received: (qmail 111 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2005 17:10:39 -0000 Received: from knuth.hurstdog.org (HELO fred.colohowes.org) (69.55.236.147) by knuth.hurstdog.org with SMTP; 25 Sep 2005 17:10:39 -0000 Received: from piro.quadium.net (piro.colohowes.org [10.27.56.90]) by fred.colohowes.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75ADF8FE63 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:31:35 -0600 (MDT) Received: from beaker.data-secure.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by piro.quadium.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j8PH7WJl004632 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:07:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim.howe@celebrityresorts.com) Received: by beaker.data-secure.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ED44D39857; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:10:20 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <87y85nuqhy.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net> <4335D1D2.9060501@leadhill.net> From: Tim Howe Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:10:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4335D1D2.9060501@leadhill.net> (Billy Newsom's message of "Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:23:14 -0500") Message-ID: <87r7bdt6o3.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: 5.3 -> 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:10:40 -0000 Billy Newsom writes: > See these threads: > > critical BOOT failure updating to latest 5-Stable (5.4) > 9/23/2005 12:07 AM > > ATA lockup with 5.4-STABLE > 9/21/2005 10:19 PM Thanks for the references; I'll definiteluy take a look at them (only reason I haven't before replying is that I'm mobile currently and don't feel like digging through archives on the itty bitty screen. > Anyway, I count three systems that are normally boting with 5.3 or > 5.4, and then the upgrade to the latest 5-Stable breaks the boot. If I may make a small correction, I would like to point out that it's not 5-STABLE that breaks mine but 5.4-RELEASE. Even booting from the 5.4 mini-CD can't find the drive, but booting from the 5.3 installer can. > > Perhaps you could test one of those identical machines with a simple > hard disk swap? Just put the bad booting drive in a working system and > see if the error is still there? I can do this either today or tomorrow. > Has anyone checked the CVS repository for a possible change to the ATA > detection or boot code? Since you mentioned that 5.4-RELEASE worked for you but -STABLE didn't, I've got a build of RELENG_5 (is this still active in comparison to RELENG_6?) going now. Perhaps what broke yours fixed mine. In any case it will be helpful for patching against and testing. > Can you post your dmesg for 5.3 perhaps? Yes. > BTW, you can boot that machine to the old kernel using the procedure If you think it will be helpful I can. Will this produce a different result than booting from the 5.3 installer? -- Tim Howe Software Engineer Celebrity Resorts, Inc.