From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Tue May 3 20:58:58 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5638DB2C540 for ; Tue, 3 May 2016 20:58:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imb@protected-networks.net) Received: from mail.auburn.protected-networks.net (mail.auburn.protected-networks.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:4e1::3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.auburn.protected-networks.net", Issuer "Protected Networks Root CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1F4011958; Tue, 3 May 2016 20:58:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imb@protected-networks.net) Received: from mail.auburn.protected-networks.net (localhost.auburn.protected-networks.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.auburn.protected-networks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF1524; Tue, 3 May 2016 16:58:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.auburn.protected-networks.net ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.auburn.protected-networks.net (mail.auburn.protected-networks.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lkDgMNk-N1Mn; Tue, 3 May 2016 16:58:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from toshi.auburn.protected-networks.net (toshi.auburn.protected-networks.net [192.168.1.10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "Iain Michael Butler", Issuer "Protected Networks CA" (verified OK)) (Authenticated sender: imb@mail.auburn.protected-networks.net) by mail.auburn.protected-networks.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 115BE5; Tue, 3 May 2016 16:58:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: boot with floppy enabled doesn't..... To: John Baldwin , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <0b555735ed2b24d5974f2357f3888d05@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <1e5b9c5c0fb2faf8cfb9c8864be8651c@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <1797095.k3J7QE5xDU@ralph.baldwin.cx> Cc: Larry Rosenman From: Michael Butler Openpgp: id=6F63E6399DCC8E3E94D60F0642FF6BAE0442D492 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:58:54 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1797095.k3J7QE5xDU@ralph.baldwin.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 20:58:58 -0000 On 05/03/16 15:58, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday, May 03, 2016 03:37:27 PM Michael Butler wrote: >> On 05/03/16 11:21, Larry Rosenman wrote: >>> On 2016-05-03 05:49, Joel Dahl wrote: >>>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:36:53PM -0500, 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. >>>> >>>> Just a "me too". But this is with VMware Fusion. If I disable the >>>> floppy from >>>> BIOS, the virtual machine boots. If I leave it enabled, it hangs. >>> Thanks for posting that I'm not the only one, and it's not flakey hardware. >>> >> >> I have an, otherwise extremely reliable but ancient, Intel TR440BXA >> motherboard doing this :-( >> >> What drove me mad for a while is that I have an identical machine, with >> exception of 10k RPM SCSI disks, which doesn't hang. I simply optioned >> out "device fdc" and it's behaved ever since, > > Larry wasn't able to get into DDB when his box hung, are either of you able > to get into DDB when it hangs? Unfortunately, mine is sitting in a remote data-centre. The best I could do was get the remote hands to show me the boot messages via photo, i.e. it hung immediately after the "mounting root from .." text, the same as described by others, imb