From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 14:19:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121321065698 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:19:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.copeland@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C698FC1F for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:19:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.copeland@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so771808qwb.7 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:19:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; bh=0OkvjjsHkeT4KtkN0E6qlCFdWH1ZTB01svyLkdQYKHk=; b=drmuH/cM6ySi09kUpeN9VZDwVqd61JOfy3+g+rEVAobf/DxrWaNuQq4RMCnPyJj9Vl uWRVyNJc0nC1T7JQZxn0Gc+qoBZ5nNDWOwpZD3w4OePYSrDg7MaLHpRSqh+YnwGkqZdY SJS53qiMFVFhiSZT0eyh4INt+PaCXRYcDxbzQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type; b=HXfNTA6dbzBmBGK+ClNG+dMeJNbafFYO96TF5+Nh7XlE7mi2Dnz5rehFcyRdGM4ItX MuopYfyFS9oC4F5fInALlLVLVUwcK1+mGFgzUZJJ7GKniW1m5/nNEjaOzcy3Xbp+ZByR YegzSvFhFYpYYTD41IGnyaxcBqauIfoC4jSic= Received: by 10.214.25.1 with SMTP id 1mr795331qay.322.1229523547945; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:19:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.104? (adsl-074-245-053-043.sip.jax.bellsouth.net [74.245.53.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm3743660ywl.35.2008.12.17.06.19.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:19:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49490A5B.1020807@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:19:07 -0500 From: michael User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas 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> In-Reply-To: <874p13fi2m.fsf@kobe.laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ThinkDifferently Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:19:09 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:36:05 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently 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" >