On Saturday 14 April 2007 10:36, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2007 16:17, patrick wrote: > > > Unfortunately that makes it impossible to interrupt the loader to go > > > into single user mode (or whatever). > > > > that is depending on the situation you are in. there are more ways to get > > in 'other boot modes' then using the bootloader on the disk. > > Hmm.. How can you get to (say) single user mode, or load an old kernel? > They're the really critical things I use the loader for (usually in > desperate circumstances :) > Press any key to gain boot prompt while system is loading- look at loader messages. From appeared boot prompt type: boot -s
Or if you want other kernel: #unload kernel #load kernel.old #boot > > > I wonder if it is a race of some sort with the BIOS doing a periodic > > > task and hence reducing the delay makes it work most of the time. > > > > Also note I have also exactly the same system (second one) which has no > > problems at all. > > Yeah it seems to affect our systems unevenly too, although they are > putatively identical.. > > > I never had the time to pull them apart to find out what the diff is > > which causing this issue. > > phase of the moon during construction or the diodes?! :) I got almost identical board P8SCi and have no problems running FreeBSD 6.1, 6.2, 7-CURRENT. Maybe you should look at supermicro site and upgrade bios. I think this is ACPI problem. You can disable ACPI temporarily at the boot loader prompt by issueing "unset acpi_load" if you are having problems booting an ACPI enabled machine. If you want to disable ACPI simply add hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
