From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 0:25:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5A537B41A for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:25:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (unknown [209.105.45.9]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3FA432 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 02:25:05 -0600 (CST) Received: by twincat.vladsempire.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 85D033861; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 02:25:24 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 02:25:24 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange pause at boot prompt Message-ID: <20011206022524.B446@twincat.vladsempire.net> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Emmerton , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000701c17dd6$657b0940$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000701c17dd6$657b0940$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:47:11PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:47:11PM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > I've got a whole bunch of 4.3-REL machines that were built from the same > media and the same installation crib sheet. > One of these systems experiences a really strange quirk: > > When it boots, it displays this: > > FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel > boot: > > and then waits forever until someone presses . > > The other machines all have the same disk partitioning, and none of them > experience this behaviour. > > Does anyone have any explanation for why this occurs, and how to make it > stop? It's quite distressing, especially since it's a remote box. Sounds like maybe the partition isn't set active, or perhaps FreeBSD and the BIOS are disagreeing about the drive geometry. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message