From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 28 23:22:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AC41065670 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:22:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sendtomatt@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280278FC1C for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbcwz17 with SMTP id wz17so2844828pbc.13 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:22:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=2TNKA2GQp5CjhgE1Td8A2k3oOnNMkAZUdb5EuRgxu74=; b=0SMhGBqbkOhR/EIzWE7P6B3y3XSf+WClA7vKSNsCr706fxQ55upaV/yY5W7kNgq8fJ RZ/NrgsU36Aed/Bu+Kzt+dUdEtAHEEsAFFCPLnLrnF2JY1CfHVGA7wL0+zjtZH4B2hyd VmVV4WmygNA7SCV0BgHPmgxolhFYAQ9ti9x8kqn3UwSILAL6JbcI54q8ku/8bjyuqL9w 2QyXrSud02sEpUU9bIIhz8O+skbJ+3xSuwFsDixFUqvefSAGLFHu/oKyqlp0XJ4o8Ltl kabK8pK0MGKtH8ZwSQmsjDmaWRhTLSPsP5N2I2h62RIPqUnKp6JPZiBHUgm2HwI0xbGA qD5Q== Received: by 10.68.200.9 with SMTP id jo9mr474424pbc.19.1332976955753; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:22:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bakeneko.local (70-36-223-239.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net. [70.36.223.239]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o9sm3613677pbe.60.2012.03.28.16.22.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F739CC6.7030007@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:20:38 -0700 From: matt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120326 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark References: <20120327182233.3c632624@internecto.net> <4F71EB26.9090508@gmail.com> <20120327195518.23f5fe1a@internecto.net> <20120328134027.22b753ba@internecto.net> In-Reply-To: <20120328134027.22b753ba@internecto.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Awkward booting issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:22:36 -0000 On 03/28/12 06:40, Mark wrote: >> (...snip...) >>> Disable everything you can to reduce the attachable devices and see >>> if it will still boot. This will help identify which device if any >>> is causing the hang >> Yes, I considered this. But even after having disabled everything >> that's possible in the bios, the boot issue persists... >> > Any more suggestions? I'd really like to get this solved, please... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" If you have access to another FreeBSD machine, you could try compiling a minimal kernel (remove drivers that are unneeded, but also those that attach but are unnecessary) and booting from that kernel instead. Can you type characters onto the terminal after the boot hangs? If no, does capslocks change keyboard LEDs? Does 9-RELEASE boot? Or does no FreeBSD boot? Matt