From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 28 10:36:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dns.dn.cz (ppp742.praha.worldonline.cz [212.11.106.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D4A337B6EA for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:32:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from milan@salajka.cz) Received: from milan ([212.80.67.18]) by dns.dn.cz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA02622 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:50:32 +0200 Message-ID: <014d01bff669$09e0f540$0101a8c0@metropole.cz> From: "Milan Salajka" To: References: <029e01bff660$58349e80$0100a8c0@wstein.com> Subject: Re: Problems booting stable/4.1-RC. Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:49:18 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well, try to compile kernel with commented these lines: # ATA and ATAPI devices #device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 #device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15 which are uncommented in the GENERIC kernel file... Milan > This concerns stable, was posted on -questions several days ago, and still > no response. Does anyone here have any ideas? > > To summarize the problem: Occasionally (frequently(!)) this system will NOT > boot; and locks up trying to reinitialize the ATA drive. The kernel IS > read, and it gets to the point of "mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a", then > freezes. 1 out of 10 boots actually work, although it cycles through > "resetting ATA devices" up to 4 times and always chooses PIO mode. > > Is there a way to FORCE PIO mode? (I know about the sysctl, and I know > about the settings once multi-user is going; however this happens when > trying to call init, I think...) > > joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message