Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:46:10 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>, "re@freebsd.org" <re@freebsd.org>, "tom@hur.st" <tom@hur.st>, "freebsd-usb@freebsd.org" <freebsd-usb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8.x grudges Message-ID: <1278539170.2512.86.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20100707185928.GA16180@icarus.home.lan> References: <4C34C5DE.7040007@aldan.algebra.com> <20100707185928.GA16180@icarus.home.lan>
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> > > 5. > > One of the upgraded systems would repeatedly hang at boot, until I > > disabled the on-board firewire-device through the BIOS... It was > > not a problem under 7.x, although I don't know, whether the device > > actually worked. > > This is a commonly-reported problem, assuming "at boot" you mean "while > the kernel is starting". Or unless you're using a certain model of > Shuttle box, but that turned out to be literally a BIOS bug: > > http://koitsu.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/shuttle-sg45h7-firewire-bug-in-bios-sg45u10o/ > Looking at this link, it doesn't match the described issue. Mikhail's machine would not boot *until* he disabled the firewire controller in the BIOS. The referenced issue on that Shuttle based machine talks about disabling the firewire controller and *then* it still being alive when the system powers on and crashing the system. I interpret this as a bug. Sean
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