Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

[Kevin Oberman]

I sent a note about this a couple of weeks ago, but have not heard
anything. I'm really getting a bit desperate.

I have a system that I am trying to upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0. I have
built it and installed the kernel, but it fails to boot. The boot
freezes after probing for my hard drives during the probe of the
CDROM. It just sits there, seemingly forever, though I have never
waited longer then a few minutes.

The system is a SuperMicro C25BX mother board. The DVD is PATA,
reported on boot of 8-Stable as:
acd0: DVDR <ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P/9P59> at ata2-master UDMA66

If I unplug the CDROM, it boots fine, but I really need the device on
the system, so I really can't leave it unplugged. Also, after the 9
kernel is installed, my Mk file have been updated so that I can't
build some ports if I boot the 8.2 kernel. Does anyone remember this
being reported by others? It was most likely on current, as it was
probably prior to the release of 9. I googled around, but could not
find it.

I'd really appreciate it if anyone can point me toward a solution.

Thanks,
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com