From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 5 04:08:47 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2203D1E3 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2014 04:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173005pub.verizon.net (vms173005pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0536F962 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2014 04:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.3] ([unknown] [71.177.216.148]) by vms173005.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0N3J00FYNI5Z2480@vms173005.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2014 23:08:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Doug Hardie Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Subject: 9.2 Boot Problem Message-id: <175D3755-BB9B-4EAD-BDAD-06E9670E06AB@lafn.org> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 21:08:23 -0700 To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org List" MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 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, 05 Apr 2014 04:08:47 -0000 I put this out on Questions, but got no responses. Hopefully someone = here has some ideas. FreeBSD 9.2. All of my systems are hanging during boot right after the = screen that has the picture. Its as if someone hit a space on the = keyboard. However, these systems have no keyboard. If I plug one in, = or use the serial console, and enter a return, the boot continues = properly. The boot menu is displayed along with Beastie. However, the line that = says Autoboot in n seconds=85 never appears. It just stops there. = These are all new installs from CD systems. I just used freebsd-update = to take a toy server from 9.1 to 9.2 and it doesn't exhibit this = behavior. It boots properly. I have updated one of the production = servers with the latest 9.2 changes and it still has the issue. I first = thought that some config file did not get updated properly on the CD. I = have dug around through the 4th files and don't see anything obvious = that would cause this. I have now verified that all the 4th files in = boot are identical (except for the version number. They are slightly = different). I don't believe this is a BIOS setting issue as FreeBSD 7.2 = didn't exhibit this behavior. All 4 systems are on totally different = motherboards. I tried setting loader_logo=3D"none" in /boot/config.rc and that = eliminated the menu and Beastie. I think the system completed booting, = but the serial console was then dead. It did not respond or output = anything. I had to remove that and reboot to get the console back = again. I need to get this fixed as these are production servers that are = essentially unmanned so its difficult to get them back up again. =20