On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:36:21AM +0000, Bryan wrote:
> Okay I did exactly as your e-mail suggested. I started the box, put
> the blu-ray in, and issued a ctrl-alt-esc, and went to ddb>, typed
> "continue", and then ssh'ed into the box from antoher system.
>
> From the SSH session, I attempted to mount the disc. "mount /dev/cd0c
> /cdrom", and.... nothing... no output on the screen, and my ssh
> session is dead. nothing on the screen, just a blinking cursor...
Can you get a disklabel from the thing?
disklabel cd0
Note that 'c' means "entire disk". Can you try e.g. /dev/cd0a if that
exists in disklabel?
> Here's the output:
>
> #Stopped at Debugger+0x4: leave
> ddb> continue
> *blinking cursor*
So the cursor still blinks even though the system does not respond
to keystrokes and network I/O?
> at this point, I have to hit the power button for 4 secs to poweroff
What happens if you try to break into the debugger again at this point?
> Now, I've been looking through my BIOS settings, and there appears to
> be a setting for SATA with three choices IDE, RAID, and AHCI. The HP
> guys appear to have set it to "AHCI". This is probably where everyone
> facepalms, but if I set that to "IDE" would I fix this issue?
Who knows? Only you can find out. Try all possible settings.
Stefan
