From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 14 20:47:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5710A16A41F for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:47:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016EB43D8D for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:47:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from 35st-server.simplicato.com (static-71-249-233-130.nycmny.east.verizon.net [71.249.233.130]) by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81A97E4D for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:46:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Francisco Reyes To: FreeBSD Stable List Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:48:39 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 6 Stable freezes upon bootup, but Release 6.0 works X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:47:04 -0000 Have a machine that once we upgraded to 6 Stable the machine would freeze at the bootup menu. We tried disabling ACPI and AIPC and it did not help. Usually the freezing occurs after 2 or 3 seconds out of the 10 second countdown. To make it more interesting... if we press enter right after the menu comes up the machine boots perfectly fine and the machine works without any problems. Motherboard Tyan S515G3NR, 3WARE 2 port controller, 2GB RAM. Tried stable from 12-6-05 (initial stable cvsup we did).. and after we discovered the problem we also tried stable as of 12-12-05. Strangely enough we have a second machine with the same motherboard, same amount of memory, same 3Ware controller, but with different drives. the machine that is Freezing has 10K RPM SATA raptors and the other has some 7200RPM western digitals (same brand as the raptors). That second machine works fine with 12-6 stable. We looked at the bios levels and as far as we can tell they have the same bios level. On the trouble machine I did do a custom kernel, but I don't believe the kernel is even loading yet at the point it freezes. :-( Is there a verbose mode or log for the boot menu and/or the boot process? Given some recent bug fixes on 6 stable that correct a problem with Raid controllers I really would like to get both machines to 6 Stable.