From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 15:17:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D351065792 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:17:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@shute.org.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6593F8FC0C for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:17:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@shute.org.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LLIlM-0007I7-Ie; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:55:04 +0000 Received: from orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id n09Et3x9012509; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:55:04 GMT Received: by orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B0CB84AC45; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:54:55 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:54:55 +0000 From: Frank Shute To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20090109145455.GA50881@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090109122720.GA38699@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20090109134342.5fb692f7.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090109134342.5fb692f7.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.1.7 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:55:04 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot machine after upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:17:35 -0000 On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:42PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:27:20 +0000, Frank Shute 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 ata1: reinit done .. ata2: reiniting channel .. ata2: SATA connect time=0ms ata2: SIGNATURE: 00000101 ata1: ahci_reset devices=0x1 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