Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:22:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Annoying >2.2.5 oddity on reboot. Message-ID: <199810180122.SAA08638@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 12:21:36 PDT." <Pine.NEB.3.95.981017122101.2118y-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
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> > Correct. My BIOS starts to load, but hangs searching for drives (in this > case). That's a BIOS bug; it's making assumptions about the state of the system. Does it actually hang, or if you leave it for long enough, will it come up? Is it the SCSI BIOS hanging, or the system BIOS? What sort of drives are you using? If they're IDE drives, are you using DMA? > Cold boots fine, doesn't woarm boot. > > Replace with 2.2.5 kernel, warm boots fine, cold boots fine. > > On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > > >I upgraded via cvsup/makeworld, and reinstalled. Both fail. > > > > > >It never gets to the bootloader after a warm boot with a > 2.2.5 kernel. > > > > Does this means you saw the message > > Rebooting... > > on the console and the BIOS POST message (memory check etc) was shown > > but the system never got the stage that it accesses the HDD > > and prompt you with "boot:"? The system is hanging during the BIOS POST, > > right? > > > > >If I drop back to 2.2.5 and shutdown -r, it reboot fine. > > > > > >In the case, it appears to be hung searching the Adaptec (onboard) for > > >drives. > > > > This is during the SCSI BIOS is searching for the drives, right? > > > > Kazu > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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