Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 15/03/11 10:17, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Mike Scott wrote: > I think I'll have to give up because I'm out of ideas, settle for a linux > kernel on this particular target h/w, and just hope this issue doesn't > affect another machine I have w

Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 15/03/11 09:54, Mike Scott wrote: Sorry, a line or two 'got away from' that last message, so part won't make sense. Should be I've found the occasional similar comment on the web, such as http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=117767 That refers to a hang afte

Re: problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 14/03/11 18:48, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Mike Scott wrote: Basically, I'm finding that the 8.1 and 8.2 kernels hang on certain machines during bootup, specifically during device discover and module load. I've tried 8.2 off the current relea

problems booting 8.x kernel

2011-03-14 Thread Mike Scott
ur of these machines; the two failing machines are currently running debian and dual-boot ubuntu/XP, so it's not a hardware fault as such. Any ideas please as to what's going on, or where best to look for more information? TIA. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England __