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From: Derek Schaeffer <terrawattshock@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: ROOT MOUNT ERROR (caused by AHCI module)
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>Number:         158569
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [ahci] ROOT MOUNT ERROR (caused by AHCI module)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gavin
>State:          feedback
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 01 16:10:00 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Fri Aug 05 04:23:02 UTC 2011
>Originator:     Derek Schaeffer
>Release:        8.2-RC1
>Organization:
University of Louisville
>Environment:
[X@pcbsd-8686 /usr/home/X]$ uname -a
FreeBSD pcbsd-8686 8.2-RC1 FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 #4: Mon Dec 27 12:25:57 PST 2010 root@build8x64.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/pcbsd-build82/fbsd-source/8.2/sys/PCBSD amd64
>Description:
FreeBSD gives "ROOT MOUNT ERROR" when the kernel is loading modules at startup. This is regardless if the installation has been dual-booted or not. The problem appears to be the AHCI module.

Hardware:
Intel i7 980x processor
MSI Big Bang-XPower motherboard
XFX HD-485X-ZNFC Radeon HD 4850 video card
DDR3 2000 ram (16GB)
>How-To-Repeat:
FreeBSD does not have AHCI enabled by default, however, PCBSD does.

In the loader.conf file,
ahci_load="YES"
will cause the problem to occur.
>Fix:
In the loader.conf file,
ahci_load="NO"
allows normal startup.

This problem was addressed in the (long) thread: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=20724

And in the PC-BSD forum: http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?p=85036#post85036

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: gavin 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 2 22:08:02 UTC 2011 
State-Changed-Why:  
Hi, 

Sadly, from what you've provided it is pretty hard to figure out what has gone 
wrong.  Do you have a way to capture the boot messages?  Once at the ROOT MOUNT 
prompt, if you hit scroll-lock you should be able to scroll through the previous 
pages with page-up.  Is it possible for you to take a digital photo of each page 
and upload them somewhere? 

Thanks, 

Gavin 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->gavin 
Responsible-Changed-By: gavin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Jul 2 22:08:02 UTC 2011 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Track 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=158569 
>Unformatted:
