Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 22:03:44 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Michel Di Croci <michel.dicroci@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting question Message-ID: <4ad871310905101903k7911f101ra4940b826a83de63@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e321688c0905101857m1a551392jf219f86dc4c72383@mail.gmail.com> References: <e321688c0905101731l69a0fc3yc28d4cf3481fb2c5@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310905101852s413792cdi31a57da3cb6325f8@mail.gmail.com> <e321688c0905101857m1a551392jf219f86dc4c72383@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Michel Di Croci <michel.dicroci@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Did it hang with GENERIC? =A0If not, do a diff on your config and the >> GENERIC config, and paste it for us. > > If I remember correctly, yes but I don,t remember. Can you tell me if I > don't want to lose my actual kernel, how can I make a new kernel and inst= all > it not as principal one. > This is explained in the handbook and the manual pages. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-trouble.html You want to use 'nextboot' and specify the kernel location. >> >> (On a side note, is your machine's `hostname` in /etc/hosts? =A0I've had >> a problem with sendmail hanging for some time because the hostname was >> not resolvable. =A0Just a side-thought.) > > Yes it is in. And it's not the sendmail that is slow, it's the detection = / > kernel step... not the service steps. > If you're using 7.2 (-RELEASE I assume?) and this has been happening since 7.1, it's not something that has changed recently. I don't recall seeing issues like this on this list (or stable@ for that matter). Perhaps it is a hardware problem, but I've never been good at diagnosing hardware issues. --=20 Glen Barber
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