Hi. I'm trying to upgrade a machine to a new motherboard (the ECS A790GXM-AD3 AM3 790GX) my FreeBSD 7-STABLE system (GENERIC kernel, compiled from source on 10 Sept 2009) reaches the point where it's going to mount the root file system and can't find the disk. It drops me into the manual specification of root file system menu, but there are no GEOM-managed disks to choose from.
There's only one drive in the system, a PATA-connected drive that boots correctly under the old (and I do mean old, circa 2005) motherboard. Booting from an install/rescue CDROM on a PATA_connected drive proceeds about the same: boots but cannot find the CDROM to mount. SATA drives seem to be found correctly, but I don't have any with FreeBSD on them. The ATA controller reports itself as an ATI IXP 700. There's more info on the motherboard here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135236&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_- I haven't tried to boot from a USB drive yet, because ATA has so rarely failed me in the past, but I'm happy to do whatever will help to provide more diagnostic info. (The machine is at home, so I won't be able to do much data-gathering until tonight.) Thanks for any help. -- Ted Faber http://www.isi.edu/~faber PGP: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkeys.asc Unexpected attachment on this mail? See http://www.isi.edu/~faber/FAQ.html#SIG
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