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Date:      Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:10:09 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        ThinkDifferently <Jeremy@FutureCIS.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot
Message-ID:  <874p13fi2m.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <21047496.post@talk.nabble.com> (ThinkDifferently's message of "Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:36:05 -0800 (PST)")
References:  <21039625.post@talk.nabble.com> <21045931.post@talk.nabble.com> <49486B95.70803@ibctech.ca> <21046366.post@talk.nabble.com> <21046636.post@talk.nabble.com> <49487A15.2090103@ibctech.ca> <21047275.post@talk.nabble.com> <21047496.post@talk.nabble.com>

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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:36:05 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently <Jeremy@FutureCIS.com> wrote:
> ThinkDifferently wrote:
>> Another item of curiosity...  I just now tried booting from a CentOS
>> 5.2 DVD.  It also hangs with a little window titled "Loading SCSI
>> driver" that says "Loading ahci driver..."  The funny thing is, I've
>> tried turning off all RAID functionality in the BIOS.  On my mobo,
>> this entails setting it to IDE mode, instead of RAID or AHCI.  That
>> doesn't appear to do anything.
>
> I'm at my wit's end with this.  I tried FreeBSD in every way I know
> how, and they all hang.

Did you try the 'safe-mode' option from the loader menu?

Did you try disabling DMA for the CD-ROM by setting hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
from the loader prompt, like someone else suggested a few emails back?




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