Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:36:23 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> To: John Holland <john@zoner.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-Stable boot hangs Message-ID: <20000626163623.A60970@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> 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 References: <4.3.1.0.20000626095103.00ac5a70@pop.mindspring.com>
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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
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