On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:20:54PM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:29:15 -0800 > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think it has to do with that "autoload" {or whatever} is the > > first thing that appears after the square box of options. > > I only saw the string for a n instant; it may have been overwritten.
I finally caught the *first* part of the boot string; it was "ACPI" [followed by some error on loading this.] Long story short, I was fairly sure that "ACPI ... " string was causing my upgrade to 6.3 to fail. I explicitly disabled it with the ``hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" hint and rebooted. No more ACPI ... string but the boot *still* hung after printing sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 to the console. In /var/log/messages there was more: sio0: type 8250 or not responding I'm upgrading to RELENG_7 and will rebuild, but if anyboody know what that last line means, and how to resolve, I'd be much obliged! gary PS: Odds are that version 7 will hang, too, but dunno until I try. > > not sure what you mean by this...but i haven't been following the whole saga, > sorry... > > > I'm using cvsup7. Not good? > > not sure mate, i'm using #5 with no problems, but getting releng_7 > *default host=cvsup5.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/var/db > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > cheers, > B > > _________________________ > {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome > > "The only people that never change are the stupid and the dead" > Jorge Luis Borges. > > I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. > Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been > Warned. -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"