After experimenting with a new amr(4) driver I found somewhere, my testbox didn’t came back after a reboot. Nothing special, you’d say, probably something went wrong. So, the next day, I went to fix it myself. Just escape to the loader prompt, unload kernel, load kernel.old, and we’re done.

Well, not quite. The same problem still existed (box ‘froze’ as soon as it got to the point of detecting the controller), even with the old kernel. I decided to pull out my FreesBIE LiveCD and just move the old kernel over the new one. Guess what, it worked.

Still didn’t seem to be quite my day, as when I tried reinstalling some other box, one of its disk died during the process. Oh well.