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Date:      Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:30:53 -0700
From:      Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fubar'ed it good this time...
Message-ID:  <BANLkTimEhki4zz=JoXMHCWWDJ=qZsb8vyA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:21, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 06:40, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sitrep: Lenovo T61, dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD (amd64 8.1-RELEASE)
>>>> on a 500gb drive. Just did a freebsd-update from 8.1 to 8.2, just
>>>> doing the second boot to do 'freebsd-update install' for the second
>>>> time, and got dumped into the mountroot prompt.
>>>>
>>>> AFAICT, I managed somehow to write something strange into /etc/fstab.
>>>> Can't tell what it is, because during boot it passes by too quickly
>>>> for me to read, and the boot process dumps me into the mountroot
>>>> prompt.
>>>
>>> Scroll Lock and Page Up/Down should work there to scroll back to see th=
e
>>> disk device numbers.
>>
>> Scroll lok and page up work, and what I see is the following, copied by
>> hand:
>>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0atapci0: <Intel ICH8M SATA300 controller> port
>> 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x1c30-0x1c3f,0x1c20,0x1x2f at
>> decive 31.2 on pci0
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0ata0: [ITHREAD]
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0ata1: [ITHREAD]
>
> SATA... are there any ad or ada devices shown? =C2=A0Something else worth=
 trying
> is breaking into the loader and loading the ahci driver. =C2=A0XP isn't n=
ormally
> found using AHCI, but Lenovo might have set that up. Check the BIOS for d=
isk
> mode settings.

No ad or ada devices. Disk mode is set for compatibility, not AHCI.

> Still, I don't know what would be different from 8.1 to 8.2. =C2=A0Did yo=
u have a
> custom kernel?

Stone stock kernel, no mods.

Kurt



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