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Date:      Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:17:33 -0500
From:      mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
To:        "Dr J.A.C. Stenton" <jacs@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.4-Stable Hangs while booting GENERIC Kernel
Message-ID:  <20010917131733.A79195@mikea.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.33.0109171905060.13906-100000@orange.csi.cam.ac.uk>; from jacs@hermes.cam.ac.uk on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:06:55PM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.33.0109171905060.13906-100000@orange.csi.cam.ac.uk>

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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:06:55PM +0100, Dr J.A.C. Stenton wrote:
> 
> I've just updated my 4.3-stable machine to 4.4-STABLE today. I have done a
> complete
> 
> 
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
> make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
> shutdown
> make installworld
> mergemaster
> reboot
> 
> When it reboots it hangs after giving out the message
> 
> ppi0:<Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> 
> Now at this stage I would expect it to come up with "waiting for SCSI
> devices to settle". I am using an ASUS P2B-S with onboard SCSI.
> 
> Any  ideas or what I should do to get more diagnostic info. (Nothing has
> been written to any log files)

I think the next step is a "boot -v"  to see what more you can 
get, and then perhaps a debug kernel. 

You might try typing Control-C when it hangs, just to see if it 
will break loose. 

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964

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