From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 11 9:52: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from kobayashi.uits.iupui.edu (kobayashi.uits.iupui.edu [134.68.11.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3ADD37B5F9; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:51:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajk@iu.edu) Received: from localhost (ajk@localhost) by kobayashi.uits.iupui.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA51614; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:51:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ajk@iu.edu) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:51:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Andrew J. Korty" X-Sender: ajk@kobayashi.uits.iupui.edu To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: current@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug: kernel hangs at boot Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 06:29:11AM -0700, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:03:22PM -0700, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > Fresh -current kernel with fresh -current bootblocks loaded ok but hangs in > > boot (no diagnostics even printed, just silent hang with "/" on the screen). > > > > Kernel from Jun14 with fresh -current bootblocks (i.e. the same bootblocks) > > booted Ok. > > The reason found. I have "-O2 pipe" instead of default "-O pipe", but I have > it working all the time from very beginning. Why this becomes broken? I've been having the same problem for weeks on my Sony Vaio Z505RX, and recently reproduced it on my K6 300. Changing -O2 to -O doesn't help. The spinner freezes (sometimes on "/", but not always), but the system still seems to boot without displaying anything on the console. The disk spins as if fsck is running, but the system is essentially unusable. It's almost as if the console is not being detected. This problem began after Peter Wemm's config changes. Both my own kernel configuration nor GENERIC behave similarly. New boot blocks did not help for either of my systems. -- Andrew J. Korty, Principal Security Engineer Office of the Vice President for Information Technology Indiana University To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message