From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 18 20:45:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2264516A407 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:45:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adam@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu) Received: from mail.ic.sunysb.edu (mail.ic.sunysb.edu [129.49.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E4843D53 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:45:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adam@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu) Received: from postal.ic.sunysb.edu (mail [129.49.1.4]) by mail.ic.sunysb.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id k8IKjAP2020633; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:45:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.ic.sunysb.edu ([129.49.1.24]) by postal.ic.sunysb.edu (SMSSMTP 4.1.14.46) with SMTP id M2006091816451523906 ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:45:15 -0400 Received: from [130.245.126.51] (thrymr.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu [130.245.126.51]) by smtp.ic.sunysb.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k8IKjE8U020700; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:45:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <450F00C6.1060805@averageadmins.com> References: <450F00C6.1060805@averageadmins.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Adam Martin Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:45:14 -0400 To: Jeff Cross X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:45:23 -0000 On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: > I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with > some > booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having > a > problem with the machine "booting too fast" but my problem is a little > different. My machine hangs up after the following line is displayed > during boot: > > acd0: CDROM at ata0-master UDMA33 > > I have to poke the machine in the eye to get it back. The keyboard and > everything locks up at that point. The only way I can get the machine > to boot up successfully is to use option 5 from the boot menu, Verbose > Logging. > > Is there a way around this? I know this is ghetto but just being able > to make the machine use that boot menu option as the default would work > fine I believe. It would ultimately be nice to not have this issue on > boot but the verbose logging option seems to boot fine so that would > work for the interim. > > I am attaching my dmesg output from the verbose boot. I can't seem to > get anything in messages or dmesg from one of the failed boot attempts. I do not know what's causing this, but for the meantime, if you edit /boot/defaults/loader.conf and copy the line that reads: verbose_loading="NO" Paste this line into /boot/loader.conf, (or /boot/loader.conf.local, depending upon your setup...) and change NO to YES. This will force verbose loading, always. I don't know if this will do everything IDENTICAL to boot option 5, however, when looking at the Forth code for it, it appears that it will, on first glance (but I'm a bit rusty on that...) > Any help is greatly appreciated. If more information is required to > troubleshoot this further, please let me know. Good luck. I hope that people still read this thread, to help diagnose your dmesg, and find your problem. This is really just a temporary fix. [dmesg trimmed for brevity] Cheers, -- ADAM David Alan Martin -- Adam David Alan Martin