Kernel stalling at "pci0: on pcib0"

2012-02-06 Thread Will McCutcheon
Hello all, I recently got a HP t5700 thin client that I wanted to turn into a firewall using pfSense. For reference, this system uses a Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 CPU with a VIA chipset that I'm having difficulty identifying. My issue is that about half of the time the kernel will stall during startu

Serial console stopping startup

2004-07-01 Thread Will McCutcheon
I've been having some trouble with a new server I just installed FreeBSD onto for the first time. I stick "-h" into /boot.config as I've done on other machines so as to get it to start up with an accessable serial console. However, while I get the following messages: /boot.config: -h BTX loa

/boot/loader freezing up?

2004-06-27 Thread Will McCutcheon
I just installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 (from the ISO, not the latest patch level in CVS) and quickly ran into a problem related to the serial console. I dropped "-h" (sans-quotes, of course) into /boot.config so that it would boot with output going to the serial console, as I've done many times with ol

Unlocking devices?

2004-06-24 Thread Will McCutcheon
Quick and (maybe) easy question. I spend a lot of time using serial consoles on FreeBSD and for a variety of reasons am constantly ended up with serial ports that are "locked" or "in use", even when there's no program attached to them anymore (cu or minicom getting killed can reliably cause thi