From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 17:31:05 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D665B54 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from srv56-45.cdn.bestreaming.com (srv56-46.cdn.bestreaming.com [204.140.16.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D51D6E2B for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:31:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.yourbox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by srv56-45.cdn.bestreaming.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s8UHV9ng027409; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:31:09 GMT (envelope-from fbl@aoek.com) From: "=?UTF-8?Q?Jos=C3=A9_P=C3=A9rez_Arauz?=o" To: Garrett Cooper , "Mike." Subject: Re: Looping during boot-up process in FreeBSD-11 current Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:31:03 +0200 Message-Id: <20140930172522.M83009@beckpeccoz.com> In-Reply-To: References: <201409281152140359.008FD377@smtp.24cl.home> <201409281153050191.00909A0F@smtp.24cl.home> <4821117AE9E7452FB73D452060B1E4CF@multiplay.co.uk> <201409291603440911.019119CE@smtp.24cl.home> <20140929210142.M26034@beckpeccoz.com> <201409301044110291.0060BD57@smtp.24cl.home> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.53 X-OriginatingIP: 62.87.85.114 (ame) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:31:05 -0000 Hi Garrett, On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:57:19 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote > > On Sep 30, 2014, at 7:44, "Mike." wrote: > > > > On 9/29/2014 at 11:04 PM José Pérez Arauzo wrote: > > > > |This encoded message has been converted to an attachment. > > | > > |Hi Mike, > > | > > |On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:03:44 -0400, Mike. wrote > > [...] > > |So that should put a time bracket on the issue, > > |roughly the first half of 2014. > > | > > |can you boot 271146? Just buildkernel and installkernel. Thank > > |you. > > ============= > > > > There doesn't seem to be much, if any, interest on the part of the > > FreeBSD developers in fixing this recently-introduced issue with > > booting up FreeBSD. > > > > Since I experience the problem only on the one notebook of mine, I'll > > just re-purpose that notebook for OpenBSD and try to find another old > > notebook that works with FreeBSD. Seems like the path of least > > resistance for me.... > > Did you boot with boot -d, using a stripped down kernel, and without > SMP like I suggested in another post? This suggestion was address to me, not Mike. :) I tried, as you suggested, I can reach vfs_mountroot if I don't include AHCI, so it must be that. Now I'm trying to take out SMP and add extra debugging things here and there. I'm not sure what I'm doing, but I do it anyway. In the worst case I'm learning something. Thank you for your suggestions! BR, -- José Pérez Arauzo