From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 20 22:13:34 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 22:13:29 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (unknown [167.216.157.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A865C37B400; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 22:13:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBL6OMc00740; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 22:24:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200012210624.eBL6OMc00740@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Joey Guhlin Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.1.1 and 4.2 halt when booting, Gigabyte GA-6BXU In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 2000 21:21:16 PST." <20001221052116.16467.qmail@web2305.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 22:24:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Can you be more specific about this? At which > > point, exactly, is the > > system hanging? A transcript of the console output > > would be handy. > > During boot up, when it is probing devices. With the > kernel -v it goes to isa something pnp something I > believe, sorry, that's the best I can do > unfortunately. Well, without more details it's really going to be impossible to do anything about this. > > There are no known problems with PnP in 4.2, so > > there's nothing that's > > going to be fixed unless we can characterise your > > problem here. > > If you can't turn PnP totally off, then there's a > problem. =) No. PnP is basically mandated by systems these days, and we need to deal with it. There's still no clear indication that this is even a PnP issue, so don't get too twisted about it yet. 8) > it, as did 4.2, but you could be right that it isn't > PnP, but how can I find out what it is? I can always > pop in a 4.1.1 cd(with alot of talking into it) and > try. You can start by getting the verbose boot output from the system. If the box is in production right now, I'd leave it that way and hope that someone else with the same board can reproduce the problem. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message