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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:49:16 -0700
From:      "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com>
To:        "'Hasse'" <webmaster@swedehost.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: 5.1 Hangs on boot
Message-ID:  <011201c35538$f2559390$0200a8c0@bartxp>
In-Reply-To: <200307281640.40988.webmaster@swedehost.com>

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>=20
> Hi everybody.
> Got a problem with my desktop running FreeBSD 5.1, hanging on=20
> boot. Connected to Internet via adsl and a  FreeBSD 4.8 NAT=20
> Gateway-box.
> > uname -a
> FreeBSD thor.swedehost.com 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE
> #0: Sat Jul 26 16:35:38 CEST 2003=20
> hasse@thor.swedehost.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THOR  i386
>=20
> Stopping at Entropy harvesting.
> I have to press "CTRL+C" to continue booting.
> Then everything works as it's supposed to. ( I think ? )=20
> Frankly, I don't have a clue on what I'm doing, but I've=20
> disabled ACPI in my /boot/device.hints file to get my floppy=20
> drive to work, and I've commented out all SCSI devices exept=20
> device scbus, and all Raid in my kernel, because I don't have any.
>=20
> <Snip from bootmessage>
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a
> Loading configuration files
> Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point
> </Snip>

http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html

Following this might help, though it is more geared from 4.x




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