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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:00:25 +1100
From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@myrealbox.com>
To: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org>
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:42:50 +0100
Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org> wrote:

> Hi :)
> 
> Since my system doesn't boot when my cdrom is plugged in (it hangs
> after timecounter... ; see my previous post), I was wondering if it
> was possible to tell FreeBSD not to "deal" with IDE1-slave (something
> like "boot -noide2)... Indeed, in my bios, I set the IDE1-slave to
> none, but FreeBSD keeps hanging on bootup.

I assume you're running 5.2 p2. I had the same problem and it is solved
by having a cd in the drive while booting. Seems like a known bug and is
being fixed.

Hope that helps
Gautam