hi. hoping someone knows what's happening here...
i installed -current amd64 on an old dell latitude e6320 laptop.
it ran fine for a few hours, but on a subsequent reboot the disk (an ssd)
seemed to disappear:
...
softraid0 at root
scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets
root device: <- hit <ENTER>
use one of: exit em0 iwn0
root device:
i.e. it fails to find sd0. i thought it was a hardware issue.
i don;t want to open this thing up. but i thought initially the drive was
either dead or somehow disconnected. but at the bios level, the machine
reports the disk is ok (i ran some bios diagnostics on it).
so what i tried:
boot>
boot hd0a:/bsd
that just fails in the same way.
boot> machine diskinfo
Disk BIOS# Type Cyls Heads Secs Flags Checksum
hd0 0x80 label 1023 255 63 0x2 0xd53d9ad8
that looks ok.
boot> ls
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 .
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 ..
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 home
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 usr
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 var
-rwx------ 0,0 15696910 bsd
-rw------- 0,0 15696910 bsd.rd
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 altroot
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 1024 bin
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 19456 dev
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 1536 etc
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 root
drwxr-xr-x 0,0 1536 sbin
-rw-r--r-- 0,0 578 .cshrc
-rw-r--r-- 0,0 468 .profile
stat(hda0/./sys): No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 0,0 82320 boot
-rw------- 0,0 15579327 bsd.sp
-rw------- 0,0 15714870 bsd.booted
so at this level i can see the disk. but when i boot it's not found.
trying fresh installs just end the same way - it fails to locate the
disk. so i can;t use anything like fdisk to dig around.
any opinions on whether the issue is with the disk, or whether there's
anything else i can try?
sorry i have no up to date dmesg for this machine ;(
thanks,
jmc
