Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:15:19 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x Message-ID: <4771FF87.9030908@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCIEEECFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCIEEECFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: <SNIP> > > If your MB is new it should work. Older MB's have problems with > the "new way" to boot off an optical cd. You can try BIOS/CMOS > updates from the motherbard mfg if they are available. Sometimes > even back-flashing to older BIOS fixes it. This is a brand new ABIT mobo w/latest bios on board. > >> 3) Reordering/removing memory sticks made no difference. I am running >> a memory test ATM just to be sure, but so far, the memory seems fine. >> >> 4) No amount of poking around in the BIOS settings seems to help either. >> >> I am starting to suspect the MOBO. If I stick a couple of cards in the >> two available PCI slots, the system has trouble taking me into the BIOS >> screen. I have to remove the cards to reliably get into the BIOS >> settings menu. I wonder if this is one of those situations where there >> are not enough IRQs to go around. >> > > If it's a new MB the PCI cards are probably too old/slow to work right. I thought that even modern PCI busses would fall back to the old speeds. I've had not trouble with any of my other rather new mobos, running, say, old Adaptec controllers. > > Another thing to check is if the MB has any overclock settings turned > on, these will screw up booting, going into BIOS, and some PCI cards. > Go to BIOS and select "reset to factory settings" which turns off all > the go-fast stuff. And make sure you confirm the CPU speed in BIOS > with the actual speed stamped on the CPU. I've reset the BIOS to the most conservative mode, no overclocking, etc. > > Sometimes you just got to stick a floppy disk drive on the thing and > boot from the 4 boot floppies then do an FTP install. I have about > a dozen servers among the collection I manage that are like this - > some are even newer ones. I would *love* to know just where boot is getting lost. In the case of your servers, do you see the same symptoms I am seeing: The kernel loading progress prompt gets painted (most of the time, sometimes it does not even make it that far) and the booting seizes up? Thanks for your time, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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