From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 18 21:54:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5A016A4C9 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:54:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamlsd@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8218243D45 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:54:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamlsd@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so4091435wxd for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:54:11 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:cc:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer:sender; b=DFLJk/crSmXuO+eQ7J9S+uhhzfTgy04mB8/IfrW9IEK27Z0DEia2Rg8hKinmATngyPGQj4ejtq+Qwkz9qm8aPjyy8CHnAVyex/nONSYBE+g0tZmYVPQ+NQRJF0tqrqLh151op792hHW3IH570qF+fP7UDfxoIR83uytNIVgECzI= Received: by 10.70.8.20 with SMTP id 20mr21002212wxh; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?130.245.126.51? ( [130.245.126.51]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h34sm1313100wxd.2006.09.18.14.54.10; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:54:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <450F1222.3080800@averageadmins.com> References: <450F00C6.1060805@averageadmins.com> <450F1222.3080800@averageadmins.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Adam Martin Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:54:09 -0400 To: Jeff Cross X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624) Sender: Adam Martin Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:54:13 -0000 On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: > Adam Martin wrote: >> >> On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: >> >>> I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with >>> some >>> booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone >>> having a >>> problem with the machine "booting too fast" but my problem is a >>> little >>> different. My machine hangs up after the following line is displayed >>> during boot: >>> >>> acd0: CDROM at ata0-master UDMA33 [ Trimmed for brevity ] > Thanks for the reply, Adam. I actually tried the verbose_logging="YES" > in my /boot/loader.conf file prior to posting but it still hangs after > the CD-ROM line for some reason. Hey, no problem, Jeff. To be frank, I just signed up for Questions, after Google Summer of Code, and yours is the first one I've answered. Glad to see that I've started on the right foot though. > It appears the only way the machine will boot up properly is if I hit 5 > on the boot menu. This obviously doesn't make remote reboots very > "admin friendly"! I know that I setup something like this once, because I needed it to always drop to command line. I can help you emulate what's in menu option 5, in a loader.4th script. But you'll have to drop the pretty menu, and logo... If you're willing let me know. > Thanks again for your reply! Like I said, no problem. Thanks for your enthusiastic support. Regards, -- ADAM David Alan Martin P.S.: It's still me, the same Adam. Just figured I should use my FreeBSD From: address instead of fsl.