On 11/02/2011, at 1:43, Mark Powell wrote: > After boot0 starts and the USB boots it displays Drive C: is disk0 etc. for > each drive. Then I can hear all the drives making noises. Sounds like the > devices are being tasted, with the spinning char. This goes on for sometime. > Often the machine hangs solid and I have to reset. It can take 3 or 4 > attempts before the OS boots. I can tell it's hung by pressing the caps lock > key. If the capslock light doesn't work I hit reset and cross my fingers.
This is before the kernel boots, correct? ie the hang occurs before any bold text is printed on the screen. 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). 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? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
