From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 5 13:47:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts11.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A00037B44B for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 13:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([199.243.149.34]) by tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011205214713.UWSP24249.tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:47:13 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fB5Ld0W84956 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:39:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <000701c17dd6$657b0940$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: Subject: strange pause at boot prompt Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:47:11 -0500 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 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a whole bunch of 4.3-REL machines that were built from the same media and the same installation crib sheet. One of these systems experiences a really strange quirk: When it boots, it displays this: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel boot: and then waits forever until someone presses . The other machines all have the same disk partitioning, and none of them experience this behaviour. Does anyone have any explanation for why this occurs, and how to make it stop? It's quite distressing, especially since it's a remote box. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message