Re: 5.3-BETA6 boot-time hang

From: M. Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:12:56 -0600 (MDT)
In message: <20041005040604.GB875_at_tomcat.kitchenlab.org>
            "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah_at_freebsd.org> writes:
: If memory serves me right, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
: > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 08:39, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > > In message: <20041004152658.GB26211_at_tomcat.kitchenlab.org>
: > >             "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah_at_freebsd.org> writes:
: > 
: > > : I'll give it a try when I get home tonight.  The sources from which I
: > > : built my latest kernel are "fairly close" to 5.3-BETA7, but I'll burn
: > > : a CD from one of the official 5.3-BETA7 ISOs and boot from that to
: > > : reduce the variables involved.
: > > 
: > > You could also just download the sources and test boot a new kernel.
: > > BETA6 -> BETA7 is so close you can even build it the 'traditional' way
: > > w/o a buildworld :-)
: > 
: > The main issue preventing me from doing this right now is that the
: > machine in question happens to be my home desktop, ~40 miles away from
: > me at this moment.  It doesn't have remote console or power control, so
: > recovery from a hang would be kind of difficult.  :-)
: 
: No joy...booting with the 5.3-BETA7 bootonly CD-ROM produces the same
: symptoms.
: 
: I can live without a floppy drive on this machine, but I'm also more
: than happy to provide diagnostic information, run tests, etc., for
: you or anybody else interested in looking further into this.

What does your fdc line say?

Warner
Received on Tue Oct 05 2004 - 02:12:14 UTC

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