Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:04:10 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Tim Howe <tim.howe@celebrityresorts.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 -> 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2) Message-ID: <20050924080410.GO40237@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <87y85nuqhy.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net> References: <87y85nuqhy.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net>
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On Fri, 2005-Sep-23 22:52:09 -0400, Tim Howe wrote: >I've got several other Pentium 3-based machines running 5.4-RELEASE-p3 >with a GENERIC kernel, and I have a 5.3 installer disk, so my strategy >was to do a minimal install of 5.3, then NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj >from my organizational build server and upgrade to 5.4 from there. Did you reboot after the 5.3 install or do the upgrade whilst booted from that install disk? >root filesystem. Further investigation found that it wasn't able to >find the ATA HDD (master on ata0) at all, but could find the ATAPI CDROM >drive (master on ata0). You shouldn't have two masters on ata0. I hope that's a typo. How far through the boot process do you get? I gather the loader runs successfully and loads the kernel but the kernel can't find ad0. Does it find the controller (ata0 or whatever)? -- Peter Jeremy
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