From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 14:50: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0EBE1517A for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27818; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:49:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:49:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Corey A. Christians" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: npx0 stalls for several minutes during initital bootup In-Reply-To: <008401beb129$ec794aa0$5dfc34cc@sdln.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Corey A. Christians wrote: > I am currecntly using FreeBSD version 2.2.8 and during the intitial > bootup the npx0 portion of the install appears and FreeBSD hangs for > about 15 minutes (app.). I'm not sure what is causing this and was > wondering if any of you caould offer any advice. The server that has > 2.2.8 on it is a Pentium III 450 with 327680K RAM. Any help at all > would be much appreciated. Thank you Your hard drive must not be coming ready, since the kernel does it's startup just after that probe. Try booting with the -v flag and see if that gives any hints. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message