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Date:      Mon, 02 May 2016 20:11:36 -0500
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot with floppy enabled doesn't.....
Message-ID:  <7ad88474db76680437e427981e5f13c8@thebighonker.lerctr.org>
In-Reply-To: <16140962.usBe9WNqcf@ralph.baldwin.cx>
References:  <0b555735ed2b24d5974f2357f3888d05@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <2a7118792c7b6515652707b6cd308505@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <39b5e125e5b66b771f27a572c7763715@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <16140962.usBe9WNqcf@ralph.baldwin.cx>

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On 2016-05-02 13:29, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday, May 02, 2016 12:54:32 PM Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> On 2016-05-02 12:27, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> > On 2016-05-02 11:57, John Baldwin wrote:
>> >> On Saturday, April 30, 2016 10:36:53 PM Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> >>> On a current -CURRENT if my Floppy disk controller and device are
>> >>> ENABLED, we do NOT pass mount root, and the floppy disk
>> >>> light is ON.
>> >>>
>> >>> If I disable the floppy controller/drive in the BIOS, we boot.
>> >>>
>> >>> This started after April 18.
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm not sure what info to gather.
>> >>
>> >> I recently changed some things in the fdc(4) driver that are the
>> >> first suspect.  You are stuck at the mountroot prompt?  Is your
>> >> root filesystem on the floppy or on something else?
>> > The system does mount root, but never gets to the RC Scripts.  Root is
>> > on ZFS, and NOTHING is in the floppy drive.
>> Oh, and it seems(!) like it's a live lock, as if I insert a USB drive, 
>> I
>> get the da0 messages.
>> 
>> Keyboard num lock light will change state, and ctrl/T shows NOTHING.
> 
> Can you break into DDB with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and get the output of
> 'ps'?
I was NOT able to get to ddb.  I did send jhb@ a pic of the console.

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