From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 20:15:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA23107 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 20:15:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA23085 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 20:15:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA06633; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 14:56:41 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601280426.OAA06633@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1: Hangs during HD boot. To: alpert@ix.netcom.com Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 14:56:41 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601271318.FAA03452@ix10.ix.netcom.com> from "alpert@ix.netcom.com" at Jan 27, 96 05:18:50 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk alpert@ix.netcom.com stands accused of saying: > CD-ROM. Booting and installation went without a hitch. On attempting to boot > from a hard drive, the boot process reaches the following point, and does not > proceed further within a 30 minute period: > > Boot: > Booting wd(0,a)/kernel @ 0x10000 > text=0xe9000 > > The hard drive activity LED remains steadily lit without any flashing. Some more information in a useable form would be nice. Is this a PCI system? If it is, and there are options on the BIOS to disable "IDE readahead" or "IDE prefetch" or anything fancy to do with IDE, turn them off. It looks like something bad is happening to the bootstrap process that loads the kernel, and if the HD light stays on and there are no error messages, it looks like a hardware interaction problem. > Alan M. Alpert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[