Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:38:42 GMT From: JD Bronson <jd@aurora.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/77154: 5.3 refuses to boot when IDE channel2 is enabled and no drive is installed Message-ID: <200502060038.j160cgCf058614@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200502060040.j160eFjg055004@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 77154
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: 5.3 refuses to boot when IDE channel2 is enabled and no drive is installed
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-i386
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Feb 06 00:40:15 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: JD Bronson
>Release: 5.3
>Organization:
Aurora Health Care
>Environment:
FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sat Feb 5 08:58:19 CST 2005 jbronson@shadow.wixb.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WIXB i386
>Description:
Using 5.3 release is when I 1st noticed this. CVSup to 5.3-STABLE does not fix this trouble.
If both IDE channels are enabled and they are all set to AUTO/AUTO for master/slave and there is no drive (yet) installed to IDE channel2, the machine hangs at boot. If I install a drive to IDE channel2, the machine boots.
If I disable IDE channel2, the machine will boot as well.
When it hangs, all I see on the console is:
FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot:
..if I hit <return> at this point, the beastie menu comes up.
The machine will NOT boot on it's own.
>How-To-Repeat:
See Description
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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