On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
This is before the kernel boots, correct?
Yep.
Can you take a picture of where it hangs? (you will have to host it
somewhere though, as the list will reject non text attachments).
Here you go:
http://galatea.salford.ac.uk/aix502/11022011448.jpg
http://galatea.salford.ac.uk/aix502/11022011449.jpg
The spinning char can seemingly be in any position when it crashes. It
took 5 attempts that time to get to the beastie menu.
I suspect it's in the loader and quite possibly it's your BIOS that is
at fault, or at the very least there is a nasty interaction with it.
Is there an update for the BIOS? Does this happen on other hardware?
I suspected BIOS, that's why I was going to get a new motherboard. I've
always had problems getting gptzfsboot working on this hardware and there
are no more BIOS updates now. That's why I have ufs root, as it only
worked intermitantly.
Then I wondered what the hell was going on in the loader that took >60s
and seemingly touched every drive. I assumed it was FBSD that was tasting
all the drives.
Cheers.
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