On Monday 21 July 2008 16:51:11 Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Kevin K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:31:37 -0400 > >> > >> Kevin K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > For 7.0-RELEASE, it > >> > seemed to hang at "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0". > >> > >> How long did you wait? If you didn't wait 10 or 15 minutes, please do. > >> Various tests / probes take a long time to time out on some hardware. > >> > >> HTH > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> Torfinn Ingolfsen > > > > I tried the 7.0-release-amd64 200807 snapshot and it booted (after > > holding the spacebar @ /boot/loader.conf). > > I have seen this on some HP notebooks. It seems that the CD drive does > not to stabilize on time before booting, leading to some disk read > errors. The trick is to press F9 (or F12, depending on the notebook > model) to force the BIOS to show the boot device menu. Then, *after > the CD drive stop spinning*, choose the boot from CD/DVD option. > > > It stopped at Trying to mount root from > > ufs:/dev/md0". I waited about 30-45 minutes and it didn't continue from > > that point -- the keyboard was also unresponsive. > > > > Does anyone know if this is a known issue? > > Try to disable kbdmux before booting. Jump to the loader prompt and type: > > set hint.kbdmux.0.disabled=1 > boot -v > > -- > If you think things can't get worse it's probably only > because you lack sufficient imagination. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Can you try set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 from the loader prompt. It's a long shot but it just might work. As it's a laptop, you might need to do all the other stuff as well. -- ian j hart _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
