From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 07:48:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D99816A4CE; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 07:48:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E09B43D5E; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 07:48:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from [172.18.2.1] (axiell-gw1.novi.dk [130.225.63.24]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i947mE3k039524; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:48:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <41610039.8030204@DeepCore.dk> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:48:09 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040802) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bruce A. Mah" References: <20041004025813.GA1912@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> In-Reply-To: <20041004025813.GA1912@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.4 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-BETA6 boot-time hang X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 07:48:19 -0000 Bruce A. Mah wrote: > I just updated a RELENG_5 system from sometime around 5.3-BETA4 (17 > September) to very late 5.3-BETA6 (just before the 5.3-BETA7 version > number bump) and it's now hanging after probing its DVD drive. This > problem sounds vaguely like what was described in the thread "ATTN > Soren: BETA3 still hangs on ATAPI DVD Detection during boot": >=20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/03654= 3.html >=20 > The interesting thing is that my system appeared to be working just > fine with the BETA4 code. >=20 > I've appended verbose boot output from BETA4, as well as the lines > that I think were relevant from a BETA6 boot, at least up to the point > where it hung. The latter output is hand-copied. The system isn't > totally wedged because I can page back through the console's > scrollback buffer, but the kernel just doesn't seem to finish probing > and attaching devices. >=20 > I tried disabling ATAPI DMA as Soren suggested in the thread above by > setting hw.ata.atapi_dma=3D0 from the loader; this seemed to have no > effect. >=20 > I tried backing out the ata driver updates from 30 September to see if > that might help matters, but it didn't seem to help. Neither did > booting the kernel from the 5.3-BETA6 bootonly iso image; that hangs > in exactly the same way. >=20 > At this point I'm kind of flailing around at random. At first I > had suspected the ata(4) driver but the evidence I've seen so far > doesn't really point in that direction. >=20 > Any ideas? Thanks for any suggestions! > (probe0:ata0:0:0:0): error 22 > (probe0:ata0:0:0:0): Unretryable Error Try ripping out atapicam, see if that changes anything.... --=20 -S=F8ren