Hello and a small problem with 8.0-RELEASE (amd64)

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:00 -0700, Sean McCullough wrote:
> Hello, freebsd-stable folks!
> 
>      I sincerely hope I am in the correct place to inquire about a small
>  problem I am having implementing FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my AMD Athlon-64
>  machine. This machine runs FreeBSD 7.2 (amd64 version) without the
>  slightest problem; but when I attempt to load 8.0 onto the machine, I
>  can't even get sysinstall to put the kernel on to boot it. Attempting to
>  compile and install the 8.0 kernel from source code results in a kernel
>  which locks up at boot time after emitting a message stating "attempting
>  to mount volumes"; a reboot of this system results in a bootloader
>  prompt and an error message stating that no bootable kernel can be found.

Can you provide a verbose "dmesg -a" from the system while it is running
7.2?  It would be useful if you could also boot 8.0 with verbose
messages, and mark on it where exactly you see the hang, as I don't know
where the "attempting to mount volumes" message is coming from (I don't
see it on my 8.0 machine, and I can't see it anywhere in the source).

Thanks!

Gavin