Re: 6.2 Hangs Probing Floppy During Boot
Tim Daneliuk wrote: During the boot probe, FreeBSD 6.2 (Release or -STABLE) hangs for several minutes while probing the floppy. Eventually, it does get through it, but it takes a lng time. Disabling the floppy in the machine BIOS makes the problem go away because FBSD sees no floppy to probe, but that's not an optimal soltion. Have you tried adding hint.fd.0.disabled=1 and hint.fdc.0.disabled=1 to your loader.conf (or device.hints)? I don't know it it will work, it's just something you could try. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: 6.2 Hangs Probing Floppy During Boot
Ivan Voras wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: During the boot probe, FreeBSD 6.2 (Release or -STABLE) hangs for several minutes while probing the floppy. Eventually, it does get through it, but it takes a lng time. Disabling the floppy in the machine BIOS makes the problem go away because FBSD sees no floppy to probe, but that's not an optimal soltion. Have you tried adding hint.fd.0.disabled=1 and hint.fdc.0.disabled=1 to your loader.conf (or device.hints)? I don't know it it will work, it's just something you could try. I have not. If I do this, will it actually disable the floppy/controller? The issue for me is that I want to be able to actually use the floppy when I need it, I just don't want to have wait multiple minutes while the kernel figures out there is not floppy in the drive at boot time... -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.2 Hangs Probing Floppy During Boot
I recently noted this problem and thought it was related to a new MOBO I'd just installed. I've now seen the exact same problem with an old MOBO when I loaded FBSD 6.2. IOW, the following appears to be a 6.2 artifact: During the boot probe, FreeBSD 6.2 (Release or -STABLE) hangs for several minutes while probing the floppy. Eventually, it does get through it, but it takes a lng time. Disabling the floppy in the machine BIOS makes the problem go away because FBSD sees no floppy to probe, but that's not an optimal soltion. I DAGS and saw that others have seen this same problem but could not find a solution anywhere ... TIA, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.2 hangs probing floppy
Before eliminating fdc from the kernel I add another piece of info. If immediatedly after booting I put a floppy into the drive, the booting process goes on without problems. Any other. softer solution to tis problem. Vittorio Alle 17:51, martedì 30 gennaio 2007, Roland Smith ha scritto: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:14:49PM +0100, Vittorio wrote: I updated my pentium 3 PC Compaq Desktop 450 from freebsd 5.3 (which was working like a charme indeed!) to the new 6.2 installing from a CD. It happens that the boot 1) runs smoothly as usual till after the probing of the CDs, 2) then the boot hangs for about 3 minutes probing the floppy (I see the floppy led turned on for the same time), 3) eventually again smoothly till the end of the booting process. I noticed that the /dev/fd0 device is not found and there's no way to mount it. Build a kernel without device fdc. Or maybe disable the floppy in the bios. Roland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.2 hangs probing floppy
I updated my pentium 3 PC Compaq Desktop 450 from freebsd 5.3 (which was working like a charme indeed!) to the new 6.2 installing from a CD. It happens that the boot 1) runs smoothly as usual till after the probing of the CDs, 2) then the boot hangs for about 3 minutes probing the floppy (I see the floppy led turned on for the same time), 3) eventually again smoothly till the end of the booting process. I noticed that the /dev/fd0 device is not found and there's no way to mount it. What shall I do? Vittorio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.2 hangs probing floppy
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:14:49PM +0100, Vittorio wrote: I updated my pentium 3 PC Compaq Desktop 450 from freebsd 5.3 (which was working like a charme indeed!) to the new 6.2 installing from a CD. It happens that the boot 1) runs smoothly as usual till after the probing of the CDs, 2) then the boot hangs for about 3 minutes probing the floppy (I see the floppy led turned on for the same time), 3) eventually again smoothly till the end of the booting process. I noticed that the /dev/fd0 device is not found and there's no way to mount it. Build a kernel without device fdc. Or maybe disable the floppy in the bios. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpRY1GMk17wT.pgp Description: PGP signature
