From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 3 04:41:02 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B87FE3F6 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 04:41:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [108.92.93.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA18678 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 04:41:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (static-71-177-216-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.177.216.148]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.7/8.14.2) with ESMTP id s334esaX054501 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 21:40:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Subject: Re: Hang in boot From: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 21:40:53 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <8C72EA70-89F4-4DFD-B5BB-CC135C4EAF88@lafn.org> References: To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 04:41:02 -0000 On 1 April 2014, at 00:52, Doug Hardie wrote: > FreeBSD 9.2. All of my systems are hanging during boot right after = the screen that has the picture. Its as if someone hit a space on the = keyboard. However, these systems have no keyboard. If I plug one in, = or use the serial console, and enter a return, the boot continues = properly. >=20 > I have in /boot.config: -Dh >=20 > I understood from the documentation that would output the boot = messages to both the console and serial console if there is no keyboard. = Is that somehow stopping the boot? I used to have just -P in = /boot/config and never had the problem, but never saw the boot messages = on the serial console if someone plugged in a keyboard. These are all = remote servers and I never know if there is a keyboard or not. >=20 Some additional information: The boot menu is displayed along with = Beastie. However, the line that says Autoboot in n seconds=85 never = appears. It just stops there. These are all new install from CD = systems. I just used freebsd-update to take a toy server from 9.1 to = 9.2 and it doesn't exhibit this behavior. It boots properly. I have = updated one of the production servers with the latest 9.2 changes and it = still has the issue. It appears that some config file did not get = updated properly on the CD. I have dug around through the 4th files and = don't see anything obvious that would cause this. I tried setting loader_logo=3D"none" in /boot/config.rc and that = eliminated the menu. I think the system completed booting, but the = serial console was then dead. It did not respond or output anything. I = had to remove that and reboot to get the console back again. I need to get this fixed as these are production servers that are = essentially unmanned so its difficult to get them back up again.