From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 03:18:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 BB39416A41F for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:18:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joordens@aanet.com.au) Received: from aanet.com.au (mail.aanet.com.au [202.63.35.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90DAD43D8A for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:18:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joordens@aanet.com.au) Received: (qmail 17499 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2005 03:18:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (202.164.206.178) by mail.aanet.com.au with SMTP; 23 Dec 2005 03:18:35 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.1.371 [267.14.4/211]); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:18:40 +1100 Message-ID: <43AB6C90.7050108@aanet.com.au> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:18:40 +1100 From: Ariane & Ron Joordens User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Subject: Boot error 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: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:18:38 -0000 Afternoon All, My FreeBSD 6.0 computer refuses to boot. It gets to the screen where it pauses for 10 seconds and gives you the choice of 8 boot options, and then...nothing! Choosing the default option shows a single line "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko text= etc,..." then the next line shows "|", and that's it. All the other boot options show just the "|" and that's it. I have waited for up to 30 minutes, but no change. The only way out is to reset the computer. Prior to this prblem the computer worked perfectly. FreeBSD 5.4 was installed about 4 months ago, this was upgraded to 6.0 about 2 months ago. Everything had been recompiled and I never had any problems, until this. I suspect that my 2 year old son has been pressing the power button repeatedly which may have caused this. My question to you all is: How can I see what is going on? FreeBSD 5.4 and prior used to show the progress on the booting process on screen, however FreeBSD 6 hides all that and remains at the options screen until the login prompt. Why? That was useful stuff. (But that is a little off topic) The basic question is: How do I go about finding the cause of my problem? Thanks in advance Ron Melbourne, Australia -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.4/211 - Release Date: 22/12/2005