Broadcom BCM5715 not coming up

2009-11-04 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I am experiencing a weird problem on an HP ProLiant BL480c G1 with a Broadcom Dual Gigabit network card. For some reason, it wont come up. I have tried it with different media speeds, options but nothing. I upgraded my sources, recompiled and installed from FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE to 7.2-STAB

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Mike Barnard
Thanks Phillip, > 1) you can have a boot hint in file /boot/loader.conf to say where the > system should take the root file system (and therefore /etc/fstab) from. This would work if the OS was able to detect the disk. In this case, after I boot the STABLE installation, i do not see any hard d

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi Wes, > Have you checked the jumper settings on the drive? There may be a jumper > forcing SATA150 mode on the drive. I'd reset everything to factory defaults > if possible. > It's the first thing I did and I did it for the sake of doing it since this is a brand new computer straight out of HP

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Mike Barnard
Thanks John On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:43 PM, wrote: > I entered ufs:ad7s1a and booted the kernel when I > recognized that the drive had been re-named from ad9 to ad7. After > booting, I changed /etc/fstab appropiately and have had no further > problems. I've never run into this with previous u

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Mike Barnard
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Mike Barnard: > >no, i have this: > >options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. > >options GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization > > Try addi

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Mike Barnard
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Mike Barnard: > > Any one with any ideas? > > Do you have GEOM_BSD in your kernel configuration file? no, i have this: options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. options

Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi All, I have run into a problem that seem rather puzzling. I have upgraded an installation of FreeBSD from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.0-STABLE and 7.1-STABLE, but i fail to boot with either one of the STABLE upgrades. I end up at this point: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Manual root filesyst

Re: Broken loader on 7.1-STABLE?

2009-01-28 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi All, Any body find a solution to this? I have run into the same problem as John Rushford, installing on a HP Compaq DX2300 Microtower. After a make kernel, I boot into single user mode and end up this: atkbd0: [ITHREAD] Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec I expect to see my disk, ad0 being de