Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:02:29 +0100 From: "Markus Oestreicher" <m.oe@x-trader.de> To: "'Doug White'" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>, "'Markus Oestreicher'" <m.oe@x-trader.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freeze after "Booting [kernel]" Message-ID: <03b101c3b016$9363dbb0$02c0a8c0@gnbuero.qhintra.net> In-Reply-To: <20031120150524.O50912@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Dear Doug, > > I installed a new FreeBSD 4.9 machine from CD. The installation > > runs fine but on the first reboot the machine hangs after the > > "Booting [kernel]..." prompt. I see the first "/" and then the > > boot process stops. "boot -v" doesn't give more output. > > Try rigging a serial console and see if things are actually > progressing. > Very early on the video card gets some initialization and it might be > freaking out, causing your screen to turn off. If the system > is crashing, > you'll see the messages. The serial console shows the same output: --- BootMgr: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 --- FreeBSD loader: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 637kB/522240kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca, Fri Oct 17 20:16:05 GMT 2003) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /kernel text=0x327335 data=0x4dab0+0x349c4 syms=[0x4+0x45350+0x4+0x4d77b] \ Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. --- Boot prompt: Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. ok ok ls / / d dev d usr d var d stand d etc d cdrom d proc d dist d bin d boot d mnt d modules d root d sbin d tmp l sys .cshrc .profile COPYRIGHT kernel.GENERIC kernel l compat ok boot -v ... and then the boot process stops. Do you think it is a problem with the drive's geometry? bye Markus
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