From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 30 23:14:53 2012 Return-Path: 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 46669106566C for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 23:14:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F8B8FC16 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 23:14:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta16.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.72]) by qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id GNdJ1j0041ZMdJ4A5PDnT0; Wed, 30 May 2012 23:13:47 +0000 Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org ([24.8.232.202]) by omta16.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id GPDm1j0014NgCEG8cPDmQ6; Wed, 30 May 2012 23:13:47 +0000 Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q4UNDiU2014296; Wed, 30 May 2012 17:13:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) From: Ian Lepore To: Kevin Oberman In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 17:13:44 -0600 Message-ID: <1338419624.36051.94.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" Subject: Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe 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, 30 May 2012 23:14:53 -0000 On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:54 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I sent a note about this a couple of weeks ago, but have not heard > anything. I'm really getting a bit desperate. > > I have a system that I am trying to upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0. I have > built it and installed the kernel, but it fails to boot. The boot > freezes after probing for my hard drives during the probe of the > CDROM. It just sits there, seemingly forever, though I have never > waited longer then a few minutes. > > The system is a SuperMicro C25BX mother board. The DVD is PATA, > reported on boot of 8-Stable as: > acd0: DVDR at ata2-master UDMA66 > > If I unplug the CDROM, it boots fine, but I really need the device on > the system, so I really can't leave it unplugged. Also, after the 9 > kernel is installed, my Mk file have been updated so that I can't > build some ports if I boot the 8.2 kernel. Does anyone remember this > being reported by others? It was most likely on current, as it was > probably prior to the release of 9. I googled around, but could not > find it. > > I'd really appreciate it if anyone can point me toward a solution. > > Thanks, When faced with a mystery like this I sometimes go into the mode of "poke it with a stick and see if it twitches." If you can get it to twitch at all, maybe that's a starting point. In this case, I guess I might start with seeing if setting hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 in the loader makes any difference. -- Ian