On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 00:06, Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com> wrote: > There is probably an ata(4) device layer change which either fixes (yes > really), breaks (possibly), or enhances (likely) support for your ATA or > SATA controller. This is pretty much how the ata(4) layer has behaved > for years upon years -- that's just how it goes. If this is your first > time encountering it, congratulations. :-) The device names *should > not* change on you once you stick with that kernel; it just indicates > something changed between -RELEASE and -STABLE.
Hmmm.. Ok, then that may not be me messing up. Good news for me!.. I guess.. > I'd recommend booting/trying an actual 8.0-STABLE snapshot image from > here: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201004/ > > This will allow you to boot and install 8.0-STABLE on your system. You > should see devices ad10 and ad16 there as well. It would at least save > you the pain of installing the kernel, rebooting, and finding you have > to manually deal with /etc/fstab changes and so on. Give this a shot > first. > > It also might help in debugging the "stray IRQ" problem you see (it > would be useful to know what's sitting on IRQ 21; it may be an unused > device in your BIOS which you can disable there, or try to find a > FreeBSD driver for the device which can attach to the IRQ). I will try that, thank you very much. But as future reference.. Should it work if I just get to that shell prompt, change /etc/fstab to match those number changes and reboot? I'm asking because that sounded like the way to go when I first encountered this problem, but I ended making my system unusable. It is possible that I left anything out when I tried that, or that I changed something incorrectly.. But the idea should work, right? Thank you, Fred _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
