On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:34:19 +0000 (GMT), Andy Hiscock <andyjhisc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > All went well except when it comes to boot-up. Works though the > config until it gets to some sort of networking routine/initiating. > The line said something about "Harvesting ppp/Ethernet"?
This looks like the entropy line. And it sounds familiar to me. I remember that I saw this with an older version (maybe 5) of FreeBSD, but I can't remember what I did to resolve the problem... maybe it had something to do with defective hardware (NIC)..? > Has anyone come across this problem/is there a work around? > I've tried turning things like power management and Loading BIOS > default settings. Try to extract or disable the NIC - just a wild guess, nothing coming from an educated background! :-) >From a more educated background, maybe this is interesting for you: The rc.conf file may contain settings to control the entropy harvesting; from defaults/rc.conf: entropy_file="/entropy" # Set to NO to disable caching entropy through reboots. # /var/db/entropy-file is preferred if / is not avail. entropy_dir="/var/db/entropy" # Set to NO to disable caching entropy via cron. entropy_save_sz="2048" # Size of the entropy cache files. entropy_save_num="8" # Number of entropy cache files to save. harvest_interrupt="YES" # Entropy device harvests interrupt randomness harvest_ethernet="YES" # Entropy device harvests ethernet randomness harvest_p_to_p="YES" # Entropy device harvests point-to-point randomness The rc.d/initrandom, rc.d/random and rc.d/sshd scripts also participate in the entropy process. Maybe you can check if they require some resources that are not available at boot time... again, this is a quite uneducated guess. :-) > Machine Im using it on is an Celeron 800 - Old but tends to > be reliable ;) Don't mind - completely fine for a server. > Sorry I haven't got the error exact error. As I said, it seems that it's about the entropy harvesting. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"