From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 4 03:46:53 2006 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 034B416A46F for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 03:46:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from taob@risc.org) Received: from as2.dm.egate.net (shell1.dm.egate.net [216.235.15.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1C543D46 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 03:46:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from taob@risc.org) Received: by as2.dm.egate.net (Postfix, from userid 8159) id 3E3C64B28; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 23:46:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by as2.dm.egate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 338274B26 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 23:46:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 23:46:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao X-X-Sender: taob@as2.dm.egate.net To: FREEBSD-STABLE In-Reply-To: <20060603181136.C40001@carver.gumbysoft.com> Message-ID: <20060603233625.C15261-100000@as2.dm.egate.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: 6.1 kernel unable to find /dev ? 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, 04 Jun 2006 03:46:53 -0000 On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Doug White wrote: > > 1. Capture the boot output from both the working 6.0 kernel and your > broken 6.1 kernel and compare the two. If there are differences or errors > being returned from the ATA controller or disks then those will need to be > addressed. My serial console logs only go back as far as April 25, but here are the list of kernels I've attempted to boot. These kernels may or not have a matching world, since I haven't been able to always successfully boot the new kernel prior to doing an installworld: SUCCESSFUL BOOT: FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 #151: Thu May 4 12:46:25 EDT 2006 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 #1: Sat Apr 15 19:59:37 EDT 2006 CRASH BEFORE REACHING INIT: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #203: Fri May 12 18:41:03 EDT 2006 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #204: Thu May 25 14:05:40 EDT 2006 FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 #151: Thu May 4 12:46:25 EDT 2006 FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Apr 3 22:18:55 EDT 2006 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p1 #206: Thu Jun 1 03:30:38 EDT 2006 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p1 #207: Sat Jun 3 20:19:46 EDT 2006 Notice how 6.1-RC2 #151 is on both lists. I'm guessing there isn't anything wrong with the kernels at all, and there is something about the root filesystem or a file outside of the kernel (maybe a kernel module, or a shared lib) that is somehow preventing post-6.0 kernels from seeing any filesystems. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"