Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:30:01 +0000 From: Richard Tector <richardtector@thekeelecentre.com> To: Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.x hang-on-boot on Dell 1950 Message-ID: <4AFD6D69.7090109@thekeelecentre.com> In-Reply-To: <5f67a8c40911121246m144ba07w707a1c268fb2102c@mail.gmail.com> References: <5f67a8c40911121246m144ba07w707a1c268fb2102c@mail.gmail.com>
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Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > I have a dell 1950 here on the floor. Since "1950" seems to refer to a lot > of things with a lot of configurations, I'm going to attempt to narrow that > down a bit. > > It's got 2x 2.33Ghz dual core pentiums (stepping 06-0F-6 according to the > bios) in it and it has an SAS RAID card that FreeBSD recognises. I've > upgraded the BIOS to 2.6.1. It has two SAS 70G drives in a RAID 1 > configuration and it has a DVD (although it will only boot from CDs). > > If it helps, it's between 2 and 3 years old, I think. > > If I allow the machine to boot normally, it stopps after checking the floppy > (there is no floppy) with the following message: > > fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 > fdc0: does not respond > device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 > > If I boot the machine without ACPI, it seems to stop at the same place > (stopping after having checked the ata controller, which checks right before > the floppy) > > If I boot the machine verbose, I get no more information --- it stopps at > the same place. > > I have tried this (so far) with 7.2-R and 7.1-R. Both do the same thing. > Can you try with 7.0 (should be available on ftp-archive)? I have a 1950 from Sept '07 that's now running 7.2-STABLE i386 with the fd devices removed. It started out as 7.0-RELEASE, so maybe its a problem introduced since then? Also, you didn't mention if you were running i386 or amd64. Richard
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