won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

[Peter Beckman]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Tom Worster wrote:

> i sent the following to -questions yesterday morning but had no luck. can
> anyone where give me tips or pointers?

I had this problem with a Dell M600 blade.  I was able to install from a
6.4 ISO, then binary update to 7.0, but when I tried to get to 8.0 I
couldn't boot either.

I gave up trying to fix the issue and installed VMWare ESXi on the blade
and installed FreeBSD 8 on top of that.  Not ideal, but I had to get it
working.

Here's what I posted:

     http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-November/030013.html
     http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-November/030022.html

On http://drop.io/rk0eoap there is a video of the boot process and where it
died for me:

     It hung just after isab0, isa0 and atrtc0 loaded.  The last line:

     atrtc0: registered as a time-of-day clock (resolution 1000000us)

Beckman
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