Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 02:30:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Nicolls <nicolls@dip5.ee.uct.ac.za> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/29383: ata with HP CD-RW hangs at boot (dual CPU) Message-ID: <200108060930.f769U1s70406@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/29383; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Fred Nicolls <nicolls@dip5.ee.uct.ac.za> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, nicolls@dip.ee.uct.ac.za Cc: Subject: Re: kern/29383: ata with HP CD-RW hangs at boot (dual CPU) Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 11:27:47 +0200 As it turns out, I'm not sure this is so much an issue with FreeBSD as it may be a motherboard issue. Nonetheless, I'm pretty sure the boot process shouldn't hang. After a lot of fiddling, it was discovered that if one explicitly marks the disk as CDROM in the bios configuration (instead of AUTO), then the boot proceeds normally without hanging. While trying to solve this problem, I noticed that similar problems had been reported a couple of times on the mailing lists, sometimes with other motherboards and/or other CD writers. No solutions were offered, though. Maybe this will work in those cases too? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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