Problem upgrading Tosh from FBSD4 to FBSD5

[Tuc at T-B-O-H]

> 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:05:13PM -0500, Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 	Following http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html and
> > I ran into a problem. When I boot to single user mode It sticks and can't get 
> > farther. I'm typing this by hand....
> > 
> > atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller> port 0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 5.1 on pci0
> > atapci0: Lazy allocation of 0x10 bytes rid 0x20 type 4 at 0
> > ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
> > atapci0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x1f0
> > atapci0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0x14 type 4 at 0x3f6
> > ata0: reset tp1 mask=03 ostat0=50 ostat1=00
> > ata0-master: stat=0x50 err=0x01 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00
> > ata0-slave:  stat=0x00 err=0x01 lsb=0x00 msb=0x00
> > ata0: reset tp2 stat0=50 stat1=00 devices=0x1<ATA_MASTER>
> > ata0: [MPSAFE]
> > ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
> > atapci0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x18 type 4 at 0x170
> > atapci0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0x1c type 4 at 0x376
> > 
> > 	What now? Its a brick!
> > 
> 
> I had a similar problem to yours with a toshiba sattelite some
> times ago, but under FreeBSD 5.X.  I don't have that laptop
> anymore.
> 
> It was possible to go further after disabling eisa support, but
> I don't remember exactly which hint was needed though.  It should
> be something like this:
> hint.eisa.0.disabled="1"
> 
	Same thing... Still gets to the same point and stops. 

	Is there some sort of set of settings for a safe boot?
Oddly enough, I don't get the beastie when I boot, just the old
4.0 style "Press enter" one. Is there a problem farther up?

		Thanks, Tuc