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Date:      Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:33:18 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        patrick <patrick@cyberwizards.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT
Message-ID:  <200704131533.19114.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20070413071733.W48885@gandalf>
References:  <200704131237.05624.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200704131337.17844.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20070413071733.W48885@gandalf>

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On Friday 13 April 2007 14:50, patrick wrote:
> I had the same symptones with a Supermicro 5014C-T (has P8SCi board)
>
> I 'fixed' this by adding autoboot_delay=3D"-1" in /boot/loader.conf.
>
> since then it boots normaly

Unfortunately that makes it impossible to interrupt the loader to go into=20
single user mode (or whatever).

I wonder if it is a race of some sort with the BIOS doing a periodic task a=
nd=20
hence reducing the delay makes it work most of the time.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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