Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:19:07 -0500 From: michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ThinkDifferently <Jeremy@FutureCIS.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot Message-ID: <49490A5B.1020807@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <874p13fi2m.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <21039625.post@talk.nabble.com> <21045931.post@talk.nabble.com> <49486B95.70803@ibctech.ca> <21046366.post@talk.nabble.com> <21046636.post@talk.nabble.com> <49487A15.2090103@ibctech.ca> <21047275.post@talk.nabble.com> <21047496.post@talk.nabble.com> <874p13fi2m.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:36:05 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently <Jeremy@FutureCIS.com> wrote: > >> ThinkDifferently wrote: >> >>> Another item of curiosity... I just now tried booting from a CentOS >>> 5.2 DVD. It also hangs with a little window titled "Loading SCSI >>> driver" that says "Loading ahci driver..." The funny thing is, I've >>> tried turning off all RAID functionality in the BIOS. On my mobo, >>> this entails setting it to IDE mode, instead of RAID or AHCI. That >>> doesn't appear to do anything. >>> >> I'm at my wit's end with this. I tried FreeBSD in every way I know >> how, and they all hang. >> > > Did you try the 'safe-mode' option from the loader menu? > > Did you try disabling DMA for the CD-ROM by setting hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 > from the loader prompt, like someone else suggested a few emails back? > if he would try it along with the atapicam, he would probably get further. i had a similar issue and that was the solution. well, the errors were the same, so it was the same issue. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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