On February 16, 2019 6:41:49 PM UTC, Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> wrote: >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
This sounds like the problem that I (and others) have seen when the hard drive is set to RAID in the Bios/firmware. Try setting it to AHCI if your bios lets you.
