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Date:      Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:06:01 +0100
From:      ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>, Kevin K <kkutzko@teksavvy.com>, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
Subject:   Re: HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop wont boot off install cd
Message-ID:  <200807241106.01514.ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <e71790db0807210851t4c242e63hda8db8386641c736@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 21 July 2008 16:51:11 Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Kevin K <kkutzko@teksavvy.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:31:37 -0400
> >>
> >> Kevin K <kkutzko@teksavvy.com> wrote:
> >> > For 7.0-RELEASE, it
> >> > seemed to hang at "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0".
> >>
> >> How long did you wait? If you didn't wait 10 or 15 minutes, please do.
> >> Various tests / probes take a long time to time out on some hardware.
> >>
> >> HTH
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Torfinn Ingolfsen
> >
> > I tried the 7.0-release-amd64 200807 snapshot and it booted (after
> > holding the spacebar @ /boot/loader.conf).
>
> I have seen this on some HP notebooks. It seems that the CD drive does
> not to stabilize on time before booting, leading to some disk read
> errors. The trick is to press F9 (or F12, depending on the notebook
> model) to force the BIOS to show the boot device menu. Then, *after
> the CD drive stop spinning*, choose the boot from CD/DVD option.
>
> > It stopped at Trying to mount root from
> > ufs:/dev/md0". I waited about 30-45 minutes and it didn't continue from
> > that point -- the keyboard was also unresponsive.
> >
> > Does anyone know if this is a known issue?
>
> Try to disable kbdmux before booting. Jump to the loader prompt and type:
>
> set hint.kbdmux.0.disabled=1
> boot -v
>
> --
> If you think things can't get worse it's probably only
> because you lack sufficient imagination.
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Can you try

set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0

from the loader prompt.

It's a long shot but it just might work.

As it's a laptop, you might need to do all the other stuff as well.

-- 
ian j hart



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