* Blaz Zupan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000827 09:13] wrote:
> > Problem: If I do a "shutdown -h now" and then press
> > any key to reboot, the system ALWAYS hangs after
> > displaying the line..
> >
> > isa0: <ISA bus> on motherboard
>
> I think I've seen this on a customer's 486 (used as a wireless router) and if
> I remember correctly it was caused by the ata driver. Unplugging the hard disk
> fixed it (but obviously I couldn't install FreeBSD on such a machine :), it
> was a Western Digital. Using the wd driver fixed it as well. Plugging in
> another hard disk (a newer Western Digital) fixed it as well. I chose the
> later route, as the old disk crashed a couple of days after using it with the
> wd driver. Also, I had to use userconfig to remove all drivers for hardware I
> didn't have.
Guys, here's what you need to do; go to:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html
Basically you need to compile a kernel with:
options DDB
options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER #a BREAK on a comconsole goes to
then when it hangs at boot one might be able to to hit ctrl+alt+esc
to get into the kernel debugger, then hit 't' (i think, it's been
a while :) ) to get a traceback. Tell us what you see.
Another simpler option is interrupting the boot countdown and typing
'boot -v' to get a more verbose boot then give us more information than
just "isa0: <ISA bus> on motherboard". :)
Please let us know what you find out.
thanks,
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