I've filed PR i386/69218 for this problem.
Lee Harr wrote:
Wanting to test the -RC, I ran through the updating procedure this
evening,
but I am unable to boot the resulting kernel. The system hangs trying to
detect something with the disks...
This is one of those troublesome nvidia chipset A7N8X
Doug White wrote:
Also, Lite-on drives are known to have buggy firmware. Does removing the
CDROM drive make it boot?
No. It hangs on whatever the last drive is. For example, if I have a
hard drive and a cd-rom it displays ad0... for the hard drive and then
will hang on the cdrom (after
Lee Harr wrote:
So, now... what could be the difference that allows the cd to boot, but
not the same kernel booting from the hard drive?
Do we know that the cd has the same kernel? Could it be possible that
the install cd's kernel isn't GENERIC?
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Not sure what else to show... should I attach my serial console to get
the cd boot messages?
Yes please.
Here is the boot -sv using the 4.10-RELEASE cd
SMAP type=01 base= len=0009fc00
SMAP type=02 base=000f len=0001
SMAP type=02
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 06:25:06PM +, Lee Harr wrote:
So, now... what could be the difference that allows the cd to boot, but
not the same kernel booting from the hard drive?
Corruped /boot/loader?
It would be nice to have more detail, like output.
I posted boot messages
OK! I'm giving up on FreeBSD 4.10.
I just updatest my source RELENG_4, rebuilt world and the kernel and it just
won't boot.
Now I'm going to upgrade my system from 4.10 to 4.9 which is the latest
stable FreeBSD I've used.
If there is _anynoe_ out there who has succeded to boot FreeBSD 4.10 on a
I had also problems with the USB ports with today recompile of the 4-STABLE
Also I have my card being put into PROMISC and STATICARP at boot time
I did not ask for this and it does this only since I recompiled.
Thus rendering the interface unsuable until I do a
ifconfig -promic -staticarp
