On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:54, Adam Martin wrote:
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote:
Adam Martin wrote:
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote:
I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with
some
booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone
having a
problem with the machine "booting too fast" but my problem is a
little
different. My machine hangs up after the following line is
displayed
during boot:
acd0: CDROM <TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E-N/3.AB> at ata0-master UDMA33
[ Trimmed for brevity ]
Sorry to double reply, Jeff. I just realized something. The box that
I've been developing AutoFS on, here at FSL is a Dell Power Edge SE
1425. I dunno how much hardware there is in common, but I think we use
the same cdrom drive. The one in my PE is a thin-profile drive... it
seems to be the exact part that I had in an old Dell Inspiron. (The
drive has no tray motors, just an electro-mechanical latch which keeps
it closed, and unlocks to let a spring pop out the tray by a few
millimetres.)
Have you tried removing the cdrom drive from the mainboard? Also how
did you install, from CDROM? I have seen an issue like this once
before, back in 5.2.1 and 5.3, when trying to get it to boot on some
older laptop hardware. The kernel wouldn't boot from some media, but
would from others.
You may want to try someone's custom compiled kernel, not the stock
kernels... But at this point, it is beyond the scope of a simple fix.
I am curious to know, however, because I have not seen this behavior.
Regards,
--
Adam David Alan Martin
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
