On 19 November 2010 18:17, James R. Van Artsdalen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Yes. Everything in the loader itself works fine, including hardware detection. > 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)? There are three RAID volumes visible to the system, and all three are successfully detected and used. root and /boot are completely standard UFS. It is "legacy free" hardware in the sense that it doesn't have PS2 ports, and has the latest generation CPUs with a whole bunch of new technologies. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
