Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:48:09 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-BETA6 boot-time hang Message-ID: <41610039.8030204@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20041004025813.GA1912@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> References: <20041004025813.GA1912@tomcat.kitchenlab.org>
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Bruce A. Mah wrote: > I just updated a RELENG_5 system from sometime around 5.3-BETA4 (17 > September) to very late 5.3-BETA6 (just before the 5.3-BETA7 version > number bump) and it's now hanging after probing its DVD drive. This > problem sounds vaguely like what was described in the thread "ATTN > Soren: BETA3 still hangs on ATAPI DVD Detection during boot": >=20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/03654= 3.html >=20 > The interesting thing is that my system appeared to be working just > fine with the BETA4 code. >=20 > I've appended verbose boot output from BETA4, as well as the lines > that I think were relevant from a BETA6 boot, at least up to the point > where it hung. The latter output is hand-copied. The system isn't > totally wedged because I can page back through the console's > scrollback buffer, but the kernel just doesn't seem to finish probing > and attaching devices. >=20 > I tried disabling ATAPI DMA as Soren suggested in the thread above by > setting hw.ata.atapi_dma=3D0 from the loader; this seemed to have no > effect. >=20 > I tried backing out the ata driver updates from 30 September to see if > that might help matters, but it didn't seem to help. Neither did > booting the kernel from the 5.3-BETA6 bootonly iso image; that hangs > in exactly the same way. >=20 > At this point I'm kind of flailing around at random. At first I > had suspected the ata(4) driver but the evidence I've seen so far > doesn't really point in that direction. >=20 > Any ideas? Thanks for any suggestions! > (probe0:ata0:0:0:0): error 22 > (probe0:ata0:0:0:0): Unretryable Error Try ripping out atapicam, see if that changes anything.... --=20 -S=F8ren
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