Fresh installed Freebsd 9 don't boot from hd

[Andriy Gapon]

on 22/10/2011 01:22 Gunnar Schaefer said the following:
> On Oct 21, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> A litmus question: do those experiencing the trouble all have BTX_SERIAL defined?
> 
> Not sure where BTX_SERIAL would be defined, but I'm seeing the problem with the generic kernel. Does that answer your question?

It's a make knob for boot code.

> Also, how does this relate to my observation that my system boots in IDE mode, but hangs in AHCI mode?

No relation.  I do not have any explanation for what you experience.
I believe that FreeBSD code doesn't know anything about IDE vs AHCI and
interacts with HDDs entirely through BIOS interfaces.

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Andriy Gapon