HI, I am a user of freebsd for couple of year now and had recently made a fresh install with 6.2. Everything worked as it always did but as i booted the system today it seems that the kernel couldnt find my harddisk. Strange thing is: - I get the bootloader (dual boot with windows) - windows works just fine - I can access all my files on the hd through the bootloader - the kernel boots of the harddisk and finds the (s)ata-controllers - it finds the cdrom attachet to the ata0 - it finds my sata disk but my first pata disk seems to be gone. The bootscript ends because there is no ad0 (dev isnt created so cant do manualy) I tried to boot 2 live-cdroms (freesbie and frenzy) with the same result. System: Nforce 4 motherboard AMD X2 4600+ 1GB ram GF 7900tgo PATA Maxtor hd (which is gone) SATA WD (works fine) Anyone got any idea whay might cause this?