From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 20 14: 8:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F84437B424; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (msmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3KLAdf02644; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:10:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200104202110.f3KLAdf02644@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Reverend K Kanno Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot spinner In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:40:17 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:10:37 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've got a 4.3-RC box that rebooted for some unknown reason. At this point it > will boot only as far as the third bar in the boot spinner: > > - \ | (hangs here) > > Is there a meaning behind each position as in each letter of LILO displayed > in lilo? No, there isn't a special meaning. It sounds like your disk BIOS is really upset about something. > Hardware is a dell 2450 with an Adaptec 2100s RAID card. What does the Adaptec RAID BIOS think about the current state of the array? -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message