From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 15:09:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA23186 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 15:09:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA23161 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 15:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA01447; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 01:12:23 +0300 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 01:12:22 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Dennis cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hang in the sc0 probe... In-Reply-To: <199608162121.RAA24840@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Dennis wrote: > > > > HI! > > > >I have a problem with one of our machines. It used to be a FreeBSD > >file/printer server with uptimes ~ several months (all terminated by > >typing reboot). Now today I had a real sever need for a graphics card > >(actually, not me, but that changes nothing) and silly me! I shut it > >down, powered it down and took the card from it for ~ 1/2 hour. After > >putting the card back, it no longer boots up - it hangs after the line > >probing sc0... Everything else is probed OK, hard discs are found, etc. > > > >When booting from the 2.1.0-RELEASE boot.flp, it starts to look for the > >sc0 in the beginning and also hangs. > > > >What thing on the earth could be causing such a pehaviour? > > Is there a keyboard in the machine? I've sent the fix for that in a few times... > and eventually gave up. The presence of keyboard/absence of keyboard doesn't change anything. No matter whetever the keyboard is pluuged in or not, it just displays the line sc0: VGA color, <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> and just dies. If I disable that line, it displays sco: disbaled and dies aswell. Perhaps it is not something in the sc0 probe that kills it but something emmediately after that? What comes after the sc0 probe? Sander > > Dennis > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com > > Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For > Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame > Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD > and LINUX > >