From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 14 07:36:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A244B16A408 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:36:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F243213C448 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:36:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp72-59.lns3.adl2.internode.on.net [121.44.72.59]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3E7aCce061981 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:06:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: patrick Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:06:14 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200704131237.05624.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200704131533.19114.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20070413082557.M49393@gandalf> In-Reply-To: <20070413082557.M49393@gandalf> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2928398.36GYq0hY3b"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200704141706.16478.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT 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: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:36:26 -0000 --nextPart2928398.36GYq0hY3b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 13 April 2007 16:17, patrick wrote: > > Unfortunately that makes it impossible to interrupt the loader to go in= to > > single user mode (or whatever). > > that is depending on the situation you are in. there are more ways to get > in 'other boot modes' then using the bootloader on the disk. Hmm.. How can you get to (say) single user mode, or load an old kernel? They're the really critical things I use the loader for (usually in despera= te=20 circumstances :) > > I wonder if it is a race of some sort with the BIOS doing a periodic ta= sk > > and hence reducing the delay makes it work most of the time. > > Also note I have also exactly the same system (second one) which has no > problems at all. Yeah it seems to affect our systems unevenly too, although they are putativ= ely=20 identical.. > I never had the time to pull them apart to find out what the diff is which > causing this issue. phase of the moon during construction or the diodes?! :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2928398.36GYq0hY3b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGIIRw5ZPcIHs/zowRAnXnAJ925cX2RC3YGW91kDFJI1BwqTAYuQCgpfar cSwDXB06oTUKSJH8kxs18Y8= =fJ6e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2928398.36GYq0hY3b--