From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 13 14:30:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD75106566B for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:30:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richardtector@thekeelecentre.com) Received: from mx0.thekeelecentre.com (mx0.thekeelecentre.com [IPv6:2001:470:9391:2::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2228FC1A for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:30:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (filter.mx0.thekeelecentre.com [217.206.238.165]) by mx0.thekeelecentre.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED0F45402; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:30:20 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at thekeelecentre.com Received: from mx0.thekeelecentre.com ([217.206.238.167]) by localhost (filter.mx0.thekeelecentre.com [217.206.238.165]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id u-rNfBtyOd8j; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:30:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.2.11] (daffy.tector.org.uk [82.71.32.9]) by mx0.thekeelecentre.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 13E24453E6; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:30:14 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4AFD6D69.7090109@thekeelecentre.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:30:01 +0000 From: Richard Tector User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zaphod Beeblebrox References: <5f67a8c40911121246m144ba07w707a1c268fb2102c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5f67a8c40911121246m144ba07w707a1c268fb2102c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.x hang-on-boot on Dell 1950 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:30:22 -0000 Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > I have a dell 1950 here on the floor. Since "1950" seems to refer to a lot > of things with a lot of configurations, I'm going to attempt to narrow that > down a bit. > > It's got 2x 2.33Ghz dual core pentiums (stepping 06-0F-6 according to the > bios) in it and it has an SAS RAID card that FreeBSD recognises. I've > upgraded the BIOS to 2.6.1. It has two SAS 70G drives in a RAID 1 > configuration and it has a DVD (although it will only boot from CDs). > > If it helps, it's between 2 and 3 years old, I think. > > If I allow the machine to boot normally, it stopps after checking the floppy > (there is no floppy) with the following message: > > fdc0: port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 > fdc0: does not respond > device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 > > If I boot the machine without ACPI, it seems to stop at the same place > (stopping after having checked the ata controller, which checks right before > the floppy) > > If I boot the machine verbose, I get no more information --- it stopps at > the same place. > > I have tried this (so far) with 7.2-R and 7.1-R. Both do the same thing. > Can you try with 7.0 (should be available on ftp-archive)? I have a 1950 from Sept '07 that's now running 7.2-STABLE i386 with the fd devices removed. It started out as 7.0-RELEASE, so maybe its a problem introduced since then? Also, you didn't mention if you were running i386 or amd64. Richard