Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:25:43 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing all ZFS support from boot process Message-ID: <C2BE4608-A0A6-493D-A767-37F91ECED4AE@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102101447240.69722@rust.salford.ac.uk> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102101447240.69722@rust.salford.ac.uk>
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On 11/02/2011, at 1:43, Mark Powell wrote: > After boot0 starts and the USB boots it displays Drive C: is disk0 = etc. for each drive. Then I can hear all the drives making noises. = Sounds like the devices are being tasted, with the spinning char. This = goes on for sometime. Often the machine hangs solid and I have to reset. = It can take 3 or 4 attempts before the OS boots. I can tell it's hung by = pressing the caps lock key. If the capslock light doesn't work I hit = reset and cross my fingers. This is before the kernel boots, correct? ie the hang occurs before any bold text is printed on the screen. Can you take a picture of where it hangs? (you will have to host it = somewhere though, as the list will reject non text attachments). I suspect it's in the loader and quite possibly it's your BIOS that is = at fault, or at the very least there is a nasty interaction with it. Is there an update for the BIOS? Does this happen on other hardware? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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