Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 13 April 2007 14:50, patrick wrote: I had the same symptones with a Supermicro 5014C-T (has P8SCi board) I 'fixed' this by adding autoboot_delay=-1 in /boot/loader.conf. since then it boots normaly I have tried this but it doesn't fix it here :( I've emailed Supermicro but I dunno

Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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.

Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-14 Thread Andrei Kolu
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

Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 14 April 2007 18:55, Andrei Kolu wrote: Press any key to gain boot prompt while system is loading- look at loader messages. From appeared boot prompt type: boot -s I was under the impression that if you set the autoboot delay to 0 (or -1) then you won't be able to get to the

Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 13 April 2007 14:50, patrick wrote: I had the same symptones with a Supermicro 5014C-T (has P8SCi board) I 'fixed' this by adding autoboot_delay=-1 in /boot/loader.conf. since then it boots normaly Unfortunately that makes it impossible to interrupt the loader to go into single

6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I am seeing the loader hang during a normal boot (but not when booting from the install CD). I can work around it by shortening the boot delay to around 1 second. If it is any longer the count time timer stops and is is unresponsive to any input except the reset switch. Also, if I break into

Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 13 April 2007 12:37, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Also, if I break into the loader prompt in time I can then do things as normal.. very odd! Does anyone know of a proper fix for it? This work around is very kludgy :( I think this is the same as