Ivan Voras wrote: > I'm trying to install 6.2-release on an IBM blade center blade (AMD > Opteron), but the boot process hangs while accessing an embedded USB > storage device umass1. Since I don't think I'll ever need it, and I need > the blade, is there any way to disable probing or usage of umass1? I > think the problems arrive when FreeBSD tries to attach "da" device to it.
I'm afraid the only way is to compile a custom kernel that does not have "device umass". You might also have to make sure there's no umass.ko in /boot/kernel (I'm not sure, but it's possible that some mechanism like devd tries to load umass.ko automatically). Of course, a better way to solve the problem would be to find out _why_ it is hanging in the first place. :-) The first step would be to enter the kernel debugger and take a stack trace, in order to find out where it is stuck. It might be a good idea to take this issue to the freebsd- usb mailing list. > I tried using loader hint hint.usb.2.disabled="1" but it doesn't work. Unfortunately, hints cannot be used to disable devices in general (which would be a desirable feature). That only works for legacy devices (i.e. ISA) and some others. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd (On the statement print "42 monkeys" + "1 snake":) By the way, both perl and Python get this wrong. Perl gives 43 and Python gives "42 monkeys1 snake", when the answer is clearly "41 monkeys and 1 fat snake". -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
