The board in question is an Asus M3A78-EMH HDMI. I have tried the instructions for a safe kernel compile in /usr/src/updating also. Even after that, the kernel starts to load, but the root partition cant be found, and I am left at a mountroot> prompt. If I go ufs:ad5s1a, that fails as well. Brian On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Brian wrote:> The system gets thru the install fine, and does the next reboot ok. But, if > I do a very simple cvsup to get freebsd 7-stable source, then a kernel > rebuild, the system has what looks like a drive/controller recognition > problem next time. It sees the proper root slice of ad5s1a, but cant boot > it. It shows an error with sio1, unable to open device or something similar. > Has this been seen before? > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
Brian wrote:> The board in question is an Asus M3A78-EMH HDMI. I have tried the > instructions for a safe kernel compile in /usr/src/updating also. > Even after that, the kernel starts to load, but the root partition > cant be found, and I am left at a mountroot> prompt. If I go > ufs:ad5s1a, that fails as well. > > Brian >I have done much more testing on this. With a pata drive all is well. I can install 7.0-release and run freebsd-update successfully including the subsequent reboots. However, over the weekend I tried to go to stable again, and still, the subsequent reboot leaves me at a mountroot prompt. If I go ufs:ad8s1a at the prompt the root partition, of course I dont want to have to do this each time. If I use the september snapshot, the sata disk is visible. I just tried to run and iinstall a 6.4 prerelease, and then did a make buildworld && make kernel KERNCONF=SMP and that worked successfully. I see this behavior with a 160 gig wd disk as well as a 74 gig raptor(This weekend's test hardware). Brian