Hi,
I've been running FreeBSD since 3.4. I had built a machine to
replace my old fileserver, but decided to hold off on switching them
around and use the machine to test out 5.0 on.
The machine itself is a Tyan Tiger LE (S2515, ServerWorks
ServerSet III-LE chipset), dual PIII/733EB, 512M RAM, DPT PM2865U3 64-bit,
dual-channel, U160 SCSI RAID controller, on-board Intel Pro/100 ethernet
and on-board ATi Rage video. I'm running a bunch of Seagate 9.1G drives in
RAID 1/0, an IDE CD-ROM at ata0-master and an IDE CD-RW at ata1-master.
The machine worked perfectly with everything before 5.0.
I tried to install DP2, but the hardware detection during boot
seemed to hang after detecting vga0. I thought that the problem would have
been found already and decided to try a later -CURRENT. I downloaded some
boot floppies for the latest -CURRENT (20021208) from current.freebsd.org
and tried the install again, with the same luck. It appeared to hang after
detecting vga0.
Booting with -v, I would see a message about "isa_probe_children,"
and that's when the machine hung. Oddly enough, after letting the machine
sit in the "hung" state for a while, the boot process continued and I was
able to install, but every time since the long boot times continue.
After searching around, I discovered the device hint
'hint.acpi.0.disable="1"' and added it to my /boot/device.hints, but the
problem still persists. I then set acpi_load="NO" in /boot/loader.conf,
but with no luck. The machine boots, just boots extremely slow.
Any ideas? I'm happy to post any information that's requested
(once the machine boots...).
Thanks,
Josh Tolbert
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