Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:05:20 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups Message-ID: <20010121060520.A396@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20010121025457.A396@zippy.pacbell.net>; from jazepeda@pacbell.net on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:54:57AM -0800 References: <20010121023238.S69199@canonware.com> <20010121025457.A396@zippy.pacbell.net>
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:54:57AM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:32:38AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: > > > Several of us have started experiencing problems with kernels that won't > > boot. The symptom is hard to miss: the machine locks up at the spinner > > just before printing the copyright message at the beginning of the boot > > sequence. > > Hmm. I've recently tried to boot a kernel off of a CDRW, and it got > through the loader, printed the copyright and blinked the keyboard leds, > and froze. > > The lsdev command causes the loader to panic when booted from the CD. > > Could this possibly be related? It may have absolutely nothing to do with either of these cases, but I found out the hard way recently that booting with no device.hints in /boot will exhibit symptoms that appear identical to this. Is it possible that something is trashing the device list, or not initializing it properly at kernel load time? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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