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Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:44:39 -0400
From:      "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Install on new INTEL motherboard, can't find ATA devices
Message-ID:  <1193147079.2973.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <200710221913.l9MJD0414564@lakes.dignus.com>
References:  <200710221913.l9MJD0414564@lakes.dignus.com>

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On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:13 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> I just got a new INTEL motherboard - chock full of these new-fangled
> SATA connectors... and one "legacy" ATA connector.  I moved a disk
> drive from an older box to this new one..
> 
> The machine can boot from the disk drive, but then after the kernel
> is up-and-running - it can't find the drive to mount the root file
> system.

Can you paste your complete /var/run/dmesg.boot from the boot kernel?
Did you try a 7-PRERELEASE snapshot?  Are there any modes to toggle in
the BIOS?

~BAS




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