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 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 :( -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070413/9eb22f89/attachment.pgp
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 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=93762 Unfortunately I can't see a solution :( -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070413/deea66db/attachment.pgp
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 normalyUnfortunately that makes it impossible to interrupt the loader to go into single user mode (or whatever). 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. -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070413/c9f09b5b/attachment.pgp
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 :)> > 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?! :) -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070414/cb4495c9/attachment.pgp
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 normalyI have tried this but it doesn't fix it here :( I've emailed Supermicro but I dunno how long it will take them to get back to me. I'm also not really sure how this can be debugged since the computer locks up solid :( -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070416/60505cbc/attachment.pgp