From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 26 7:36:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682D537B7DA for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 07:36:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl) Received: (from karelj@localhost) by wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA61018; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:36:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karelj) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:36:23 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" To: John Holland Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-Stable boot hangs Message-ID: <20000626163623.A60970@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Reply-To: K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl References: <4.3.1.0.20000626095103.00ac5a70@pop.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.0.20000626095103.00ac5a70@pop.mindspring.com>; from john@zoner.org on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:03AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:03AM -0400, John Holland wrote: > Sunday, I did a fresh cvsup of RELENG_4, made and installed world and a new > kernel. The reboot hangs at the point the old kernel gets to the two ed* > devices (old Thomas Conrad NE2000 NICs). Before this, the system was > working perfectly. > > Did something break in the ed driver in the two months since I last built > the system from source? > On 06/17 there was a change in sys/dev/ed/if_ed.c, which causes my ISA NE2000 compatible to hang at boot time, just like in your case. I contacted Paul Saab, who commited the change, about it and hope he will have a solution. As a quick workaround, you might try replacing if_ed.c with an 'old' one and recompile your kernel. I didn't try this myself. Instead I replaced my ISA NIC with a PCI NIC (also using ed0...) which works fine. If you go into config mode during boot and disable the ed driver the system will boot again - without network of course :-(. (The change in if_ed.c had to do with probing newer cards). Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message