Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 16:57:26 -0500 From: Matthew Pounsett <matt@conundrum.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Morgan_Wesstr=C3=B6m?= <freebsd-database@pp.dyndns.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root volume renumbered unexpectedly, no longer boots Message-ID: <CAAiTEH9iZqTDxyib3fnh4Cjxavg=-cxMtE6Gs2n8nfJaBRZWxg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <28a92269-832b-61d0-3d25-68be2439dd9c@pp.dyndns.biz> References: <CAAiTEH94JZFf6XpmXbAUFrWbjA8CXF-EpH231huzmxX%2BcjkvVQ@mail.gmail.com> <28a92269-832b-61d0-3d25-68be2439dd9c@pp.dyndns.biz>
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 16:39, Morgan Wesstr=C3=B6m < freebsd-database@pp.dyndns.biz> wrote: > On 2019-12-13 21:57, Matthew Pounsett wrote: > > There is a new wrinkle... since booting from a USB stick so that I coul= d > > get into the box and double-check some things, and confirm the location > of > > the root volume, the BIOS no longer seems to see da4 as a potential boo= t > > volume. > > First thing I would check is the SATA controller mode in BIOS and make > sure it didn't switch from AHCI to IDE/Legacy/RAID (or whatever you used > to run it as). This assuming the SSD is connected to the mainboard > controller of course. > The SSD is on the mainboard controller. I have no idea what the SATA controller's original mode was, but just now it was set to IDE. I tried switching it to AHCI, but that didn't improve anything, and generated a new "AHCI BIOS not installed" error during boot, so I switched it back to IDE. Either of the RAID settings seem like bad choices, since I want direct access to the physical drives for ZFS.
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