Adam Martin wrote: > > On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:54, Adam Martin wrote: > >> >> On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: >> >>> Adam Martin wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: >>>> >>>>> I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with >>>>> some >>>>> booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone >>>>> having a >>>>> problem with the machine "booting too fast" but my problem is a little >>>>> different. My machine hangs up after the following line is displayed >>>>> during boot: >>>>> >>>>> acd0: CDROM <TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E-N/3.AB> at ata0-master UDMA33 >> >> [ Trimmed for brevity ] > > Sorry to double reply, Jeff. I just realized something. The box > that I've been developing AutoFS on, here at FSL is a Dell Power Edge SE > 1425. I dunno how much hardware there is in common, but I think we use > the same cdrom drive. The one in my PE is a thin-profile drive... it > seems to be the exact part that I had in an old Dell Inspiron. (The > drive has no tray motors, just an electro-mechanical latch which keeps > it closed, and unlocks to let a spring pop out the tray by a few > millimetres.) > > Have you tried removing the cdrom drive from the mainboard? Also > how did you install, from CDROM? I have seen an issue like this once > before, back in 5.2.1 and 5.3, when trying to get it to boot on some > older laptop hardware. The kernel wouldn't boot from some media, but > would from others. > > You may want to try someone's custom compiled kernel, not the stock > kernels... But at this point, it is beyond the scope of a simple fix. > I am curious to know, however, because I have not seen this behavior. > > Regards, > > -- > Adam David Alan Martin > > > > The CD-ROM you described is exactly what is in the PE850. I haven't tried unplugging it from the motherboard but will give that a try today.
I installed from the CD and everything went as expected. My only issue is that I _have_ to use verbose logging at boot in order to get it to come up. Strange... Jeff Cross http://www.averageadmins.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
