From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 12 21:18:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA981065672 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:18:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbeeble@gmail.com) Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E72F8FC12 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:18:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p33so385014gvf.39 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:18:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=LVRhoT8EMZUchbK5ilgapXpGRoWxz42hpLIWTTOVUGk=; b=ZZVH2wpBIJKqV8t0dE0FEXxhZSaypwOR5D5ZszgyBWNmZxt5jKrwcD+CTWvqoZz3kg PslX9CwNvpAZZV+URgiifl+dAOr4oeXyicmM5ddTPRXSceDwd/tZY4bXZ3IufvMm9s+A MhX8G1xUPHrJGnhXvIkcYeTAX2NSoFEbx3BGU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=qCR5kM6kfOmxP1mmxmpX0HXZi5cGs0Ae08XcQGjxf7i7nWjLmRHuBu83teq7QnhynN bk82C7E5nZ6iUYVCSgADiQf4JxVD5UsDeGMj6N/K/43px5QbfGa5DAKVQpiZXtDLGPDe as2IixIRtBOQi5APN6YcWyJjduyMzXakzxX04= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.86.135 with SMTP id w7mr1039992wee.176.1258058792595; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:46:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:46:32 -0500 Message-ID: <5f67a8c40911121246m144ba07w707a1c268fb2102c@mail.gmail.com> From: Zaphod Beeblebrox To: FreeBSD Stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD 7.x hang-on-boot on Dell 1950 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:18:13 -0000 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: 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.