Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:17:59 -0600 From: "James R. Van Artsdalen" <james-freebsd-current@jrv.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot Message-ID: <4CE6B147.4060203@jrv.org> In-Reply-To: <ic65q8$a76$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <ic65q8$a76$1@dough.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras wrote: > Unfortunately, the kernel hangs on boot. The loader finishes, the twirly > starts spinning but then hangs. Enabling verbose booting results in > nothing new - no kernel messages at all. I don't think "loader finishes" is correct. Can you break to the loader command line at the beastie menu? At the time of the twirlie I think that the loader is copying the kernel to memory. Perhaps it is having trouble with disk reads, or has a bad memory map. How many disks are attached, and what filesystem type does /boot live on? And what does Fixit mode see (from whatever installed that system)?
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