From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Stalker To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: <78b2c5c6-7337-4a1b-8395-6c216b2d69cf@15g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> References: <1de0a12e-51f4-4b41-b49e-085c5705f734@z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.co> <78b2c5c6-7337-4a1b-8395-6c216b2d69cf@15g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <611.1267092801.1@dhcp-144.nat.maths.tcd.ie> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:13:28 +0000 Message-ID: <201002251013.aa36438@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help Topicbox-Message-UUID: db0cbfe8-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I tried an experiment with both success and failure; > in my bios, I have an option to change "sata controller mode" from > achi to ide. I tried changing that and then the plan9 installer can > see my hard disk, however, the failure is that in that mode, I cannot > boot FreeBSD, it just freezes the system almost right away. Go figure : > ( At least I have it working on my other system. Probably switching from ahci to ide has caused your root partition to appear on a different device node. If that's the problem then you can fix it by telling the FreeBSD loader explicitly where to find the root partition. Then you can boot, at least into single user mode, and change your /etc/fstab to match the new drive numbering. Exactly where in the boot sequence is FreeBSD freezing? -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282