From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 13 5:15:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shikima.mine.nu (pc1-card4-0-cust77.cdf.cable.ntl.com [62.252.49.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BD737B43A for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 05:15:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from rasputin by shikima.mine.nu with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16l8bV-0000qd-00; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:15:41 +0000 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:15:41 +0000 From: Rasputin To: rob Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bizarre hanging at root mount Message-ID: <20020313131541.A3225@shikima.mine.nu> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <3C8E9D6C.CAEFB922@pythonemproject.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3C8E9D6C.CAEFB922@pythonemproject.com>; from rob@pythonemproject.com on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:29:32PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * rob [020313 00:33]: > I have a Sony Vaio FX290. > > I know that hanging at the root mount in not uncommon. What is bizarre > is that my laptop was running -stable and a make world was done not too > long ago. It never hung. Then I crashed my system (due to my own > stupidity) and had to reinstall 4.5. The iso disks would all hang at > the root mount. Then I took a freshly cvsup'd source from my other > machine and installed it in the laptop after booting from a 4.1 iso. > After makeworld it hung also at the root mount. > > I was very fortunate to find in the list archives the magic commands > that I put into loader.conf: > > > hw.pcic.intr_path=1 > hw.pcic.irq=0 > > Now it boots OK, but I still can't figure out why I didn't need this > before? Rob. This is a PCMCIA harddrive is it? Possibly that's the reason? -- "I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life." Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message