From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 18 22:18:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 732DF16A4C8 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:18:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamlsd@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 876A843D46 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:18:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamlsd@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s16so4144010wxc for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:18:42 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:cc:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer:sender; b=OpHXKT7hePlp72PhqqKj6FeUdegrrOX+Qti0V+BNvQu3I377yZsvo24x+95gnV0fxbAWR5om7Lrjw12Z+Oz+HWKZlM3WdeNAfrkmDY8sCBl8Q25xutkWMYvr4ug2BW4wkg+pOHeNzyOt5taO+0Fn0curC0A4zA1wrm3gpfUfL5U= Received: by 10.70.80.14 with SMTP id d14mr21005984wxb; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:18:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?130.245.126.51? ( [130.245.126.51]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h39sm2725821wxd.2006.09.18.15.18.24; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:18:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <450F00C6.1060805@averageadmins.com> <450F1222.3080800@averageadmins.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <6fa2f8cabbdfa2691be6e491de2b9936@FreeBSD.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Adam Martin Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:18:23 -0400 To: Jeff Cross X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624) Sender: Adam Martin Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:18:43 -0000 On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:54, Adam Martin wrote: > > On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: > >> Adam Martin wrote: >>> >>> On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: >>> >>>> I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with >>>> some >>>> booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone >>>> having a >>>> problem with the machine "booting too fast" but my problem is a >>>> little >>>> different. My machine hangs up after the following line is >>>> displayed >>>> during boot: >>>> >>>> acd0: CDROM at ata0-master UDMA33 > > [ Trimmed for brevity ] Sorry to double reply, Jeff. I just realized something. The box that I've been developing AutoFS on, here at FSL is a Dell Power Edge SE 1425. I dunno how much hardware there is in common, but I think we use the same cdrom drive. The one in my PE is a thin-profile drive... it seems to be the exact part that I had in an old Dell Inspiron. (The drive has no tray motors, just an electro-mechanical latch which keeps it closed, and unlocks to let a spring pop out the tray by a few millimetres.) Have you tried removing the cdrom drive from the mainboard? Also how did you install, from CDROM? I have seen an issue like this once before, back in 5.2.1 and 5.3, when trying to get it to boot on some older laptop hardware. The kernel wouldn't boot from some media, but would from others. You may want to try someone's custom compiled kernel, not the stock kernels... But at this point, it is beyond the scope of a simple fix. I am curious to know, however, because I have not seen this behavior. Regards, -- Adam David Alan Martin