On Nov 2, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Tyler Morgan wrote: > On 11/2/2012 6:39 AM, Devin Ceartas wrote: >> hp laptop with Intel SSD won't boot under 5.2 - the problem reported on >> >> screen appears to be the one described here: >> >> http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Fwd%3A--mSATA-failure-on-6501-w--OpenBSD-5.0-td32881415.html#a32884546 >> >> >> >> ahci0: stopping the port, softreset slot 31 was still active. >> >> >> ahci0: failed to reset port during timeout handling, disabling it >> >> >> >> Does anyone have a patch to try or is there a way to boot into the full >> >> system starting from a CD or network boot? >> >> >> >> -- devin >> >> > > If you have no reason not to, try disabling AHCI? A while ago (not now) I had > a few motherboards with SSDs that did were not happy with AHCI on. They were > extremely low disk use systems, though. Note this will change your disk > device names from sdX to wdX (I think) so some minor fstab tinkering may be > needed if you aren't using labels or anything. > > Unless you are booting a kernel that has strayed far from generic, I don't > think it would matter if you got your kernel from a CD or the network -- it's > still the same kernel going after the same hardware and will hit the same > problem -- so going to current (as was already suggested) is the only > direction to move in. Or to generic, if possible and not already.
Yes, running generic from CD. Have downloaded snapshot .iso and will try this weekend when I get a chance to burn to CD, install. How do I disable AHCI? -- devin
