Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:46:32 -0500 From: Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD 7.x hang-on-boot on Dell 1950 Message-ID: <5f67a8c40911121246m144ba07w707a1c268fb2102c@mail.gmail.com>
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I have a dell 1950 here on the floor. Since "1950" seems to refer to a lot of things with a lot of configurations, I'm going to attempt to narrow that down a bit. It's got 2x 2.33Ghz dual core pentiums (stepping 06-0F-6 according to the bios) in it and it has an SAS RAID card that FreeBSD recognises. I've upgraded the BIOS to 2.6.1. It has two SAS 70G drives in a RAID 1 configuration and it has a DVD (although it will only boot from CDs). If it helps, it's between 2 and 3 years old, I think. If I allow the machine to boot normally, it stopps after checking the floppy (there is no floppy) with the following message: fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: does not respond device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 If I boot the machine without ACPI, it seems to stop at the same place (stopping after having checked the ata controller, which checks right before the floppy) If I boot the machine verbose, I get no more information --- it stopps at the same place. I have tried this (so far) with 7.2-R and 7.1-R. Both do the same thing.
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