Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:05:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Oleg Polyakov <opolyakov@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq desktop does not work without ACPI Message-ID: <20030902210508.Y80014@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY7-F123eTxtfkdpcz0002cfb5@hotmail.com> References: <BAY7-F123eTxtfkdpcz0002cfb5@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Oleg Polyakov wrote: > > > I upgraded old Compaq Despro EP from 5.1-Release to Current as of Aug > > > 27th (cvsupped) and last line I see after boot is "Mounting root from > > > ufs:/dev/ad0s1a". The box just can't go past this point. boot -v gives > > > one more line "start_init: trying /sbin/init". It happened with both > > > generic and myself configured kernels. > > > >That sounds like your hints file is missing the required syscons entries. > >Did you just copy GENERIC.hints to /boot/device.hints? > > Yes, it's there. It looks like it was installed while installing > 5.1-Release. > It's the same file as GENERIC.hints. device.hints got loaded and I can see > in kenv output same hint entries as in device.hints. Hm, ATAng went in since 5.1-R, so I wonder if it is having issues reading from the disk then. How long have you let it sit trying to start init? Does it give random disk errors? -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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