Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:21:04 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2 Hangs Probing Floppy During Boot Message-ID: <46E06F40.8050500@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <fbosp8$b00$3@sea.gmane.org> References: <46DECDBB.3000906@tundraware.com> <fbosp8$b00$3@sea.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras wrote: > Tim Daneliuk wrote: > >> During the boot probe, FreeBSD 6.2 (Release or -STABLE) hangs for >> several minutes >> while probing the floppy. Eventually, it does get through it, but >> it takes >> a loooong time. Disabling the floppy in the machine BIOS makes the >> problem >> go away because FBSD sees no floppy to probe, but that's not an optimal >> soltion. > > Have you tried adding hint.fd.0.disabled="1" and hint.fdc.0.disabled="1" > to your loader.conf (or device.hints)? I don't know it it will work, > it's just something you could try. > I have not. If I do this, will it actually disable the floppy/controller? The issue for me is that I want to be able to actually use the floppy when I need it, I just don't want to have wait multiple minutes while the kernel figures out there is not floppy in the drive at boot time... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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