On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:36:21AM +0000, Bryan wrote: > Okay I did exactly as your e-mail suggested. I started the box, put > the blu-ray in, and issued a ctrl-alt-esc, and went to ddb>, typed > "continue", and then ssh'ed into the box from antoher system. > > From the SSH session, I attempted to mount the disc. "mount /dev/cd0c > /cdrom", and.... nothing... no output on the screen, and my ssh > session is dead. nothing on the screen, just a blinking cursor...
Can you get a disklabel from the thing? disklabel cd0 Note that 'c' means "entire disk". Can you try e.g. /dev/cd0a if that exists in disklabel? > Here's the output: > > #Stopped at Debugger+0x4: leave > ddb> continue > *blinking cursor* So the cursor still blinks even though the system does not respond to keystrokes and network I/O? > at this point, I have to hit the power button for 4 secs to poweroff What happens if you try to break into the debugger again at this point? > Now, I've been looking through my BIOS settings, and there appears to > be a setting for SATA with three choices IDE, RAID, and AHCI. The HP > guys appear to have set it to "AHCI". This is probably where everyone > facepalms, but if I set that to "IDE" would I fix this issue? Who knows? Only you can find out. Try all possible settings. Stefan