Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:25:43 +1100 From: Alex R <alex@ahhyes.net> To: gavin@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/129040: [install] Lockup during boot - Cannot install the OS Message-ID: <20081122102543.78602nml4xtdftdj@nas.xor.net> In-Reply-To: <200811211147.mALBlFvJ078439@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200811211147.mALBlFvJ078439@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Quoting gavin@FreeBSD.org: > To submitter: can you try a couple of things to try to narrow down > where this hang is happening? > > 1) Can you try disabling the floppy controller from the loader prompt with > set hint.fdc.0.disabled="1" > and see if that makes a difference? > > 2) Can you set geom debugging on and boot verbose (from the loader prompt) > > set kern.geom.debugflags="39" > boot -v > > and see what the last lines to be printed are? > > Gavin Hi Gavin, The first suggestion didnt do anything new. However your second suggestion gave a lot more information, as I have no way to copy and paste the details I had to resort to a rather odd method of getting the details, I took a picture of the screen with a digital camera (crude, but the only way I could think of), The image can be seen here: http://ahhyes.net/PICT0075.JPG ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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