5-stable kernel hang during boot

[Dick Hoogendijk]

On 09 Nov Paul Keusemann wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:27:33PM -0600, Billy Newsom wrote:
> > See my posts and others on these topics:
> >  critical BOOT failure updating to latest 5-Stable (5.4)
> >  5.3 -> 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2)
> >  [PATCH] option to re-enable aggressive ATA probing
> 
> Thanks for the pointers.  I have not been able to figure out how to get
> the mail list archive search to give me anything useful yet.
> 
> So far, neither the patch to /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-lowlevel.c or
> reverting to the 5.3-Release acpi.ko has solved my problem.  It
> appears I have the same problem as Julian Dunn.  The hang is occurring
> in the same place anyway.
> 
> Has anyone who has had a problem with 5-Stable tried 6.0?

My 5-stable hangs. I use an ata drive (master0) and a dvd drive as
master1. Booting hangs probing the dvd-drive *ONLY* when it's empty.
When I put a CD in it (no matter what) the boot process just runs
smoothly (both ad0 and acd0 are seen ;-)

With 6.0R this no longer happens. The empty dvd-drive does not hang the
boot process any longer. What a relief ;-)

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