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 beca
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 flop
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
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
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
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 s
