Hi,
Antony Mawer wrote:
On 3/12/2007 1:37 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Jack Vogel wrote:
On Dec 1, 2007 8:32 PM, Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I am doing some work for a company that recently bought 2 systems
based
on the above motherboard and mostly they work fine, however on boot
just before userland starts they stall for about a minute. (Just after
it starts the second CPU).
It's 2 minutes for me, but I see this on Dell's PE2850 (2 years old).
It seems that the problem starts after I installed a Dell's remote
access controller card.
This card have support for virtual CD and virtual floppy, so I'll try to
disable it from the card, as setting hint.fdc.0.disabled="1"
does not help at all.
I see this problem on FreeBSD 7 and 6.3-prerelease.
Did you happen to check if during that time the floppy disk is being
accessed?
If it is just reconfig the kernel with that device out and the hang
won't happen.
That is the only hang that I've seen that lasts that long.
Jack
Or you can just turn it off in the BIOS to avoid having to fiddle
with the
kernel. *Why* this is happening is of more interest to me. ISTM that
the kernel startup logic should be able to detect a floppy drive with no
disk in it and move on promptly. I believe this because that is exactly
what 4.x did ... well, now that I think about it, I never tried 4.x on
the Intel MOBO that is causing this aggravation here....
Another "me too". We saw this and wound up removing the floppy drive
from the systems in order to avoid this lengthy delay on boot - we
weren't using them anyway and it saved a whole $5 or so on the
hardware costs... ;-)
I seem to recall it was not purely a 6.x thing - as I'm sure that we
have plenty of 6.x machines with FDDs that don't exhibit this hang -
but it was only newer Intel motherboards (I think 9xx series onwards)
that we were seeing the issue on...
--Antony
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Stefan Lambrev
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