Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:10:09 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: ThinkDifferently <Jeremy@FutureCIS.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot Message-ID: <874p13fi2m.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <21047496.post@talk.nabble.com> (ThinkDifferently's message of "Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:36:05 -0800 (PST)") References: <21039625.post@talk.nabble.com> <21045931.post@talk.nabble.com> <49486B95.70803@ibctech.ca> <21046366.post@talk.nabble.com> <21046636.post@talk.nabble.com> <49487A15.2090103@ibctech.ca> <21047275.post@talk.nabble.com> <21047496.post@talk.nabble.com>
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:36:05 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently <Jeremy@FutureCIS.com> wrote: > ThinkDifferently wrote: >> Another item of curiosity... I just now tried booting from a CentOS >> 5.2 DVD. It also hangs with a little window titled "Loading SCSI >> driver" that says "Loading ahci driver..." The funny thing is, I've >> tried turning off all RAID functionality in the BIOS. On my mobo, >> this entails setting it to IDE mode, instead of RAID or AHCI. That >> doesn't appear to do anything. > > I'm at my wit's end with this. I tried FreeBSD in every way I know > how, and they all hang. Did you try the 'safe-mode' option from the loader menu? Did you try disabling DMA for the CD-ROM by setting hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 from the loader prompt, like someone else suggested a few emails back?
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