conf/145311: loader.conf can cause boot hang

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Sat Apr 3 02:40:03 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR conf/145311; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com>
To: Henry Grebler <henrygrebler at optusnet.com.au>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: conf/145311: loader.conf can cause boot hang
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:31:35 -0700

 On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Henry Grebler
 <henrygrebler at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
 >
 >>Number: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 145311
 >>Category: =A0 =A0 =A0 conf
 >>Synopsis: =A0 =A0 =A0 loader.conf can cause boot hang
 >>Confidential: =A0 no
 >>Severity: =A0 =A0 =A0 non-critical
 >>Priority: =A0 =A0 =A0 low
 >>Responsible: =A0 =A0freebsd-bugs
 >>State: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0open
 >>Quarter:
 >>Keywords:
 >>Date-Required:
 >>Class: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id: =A0 current-users
 >>Arrival-Date: =A0 Sat Apr 03 02:00:20 UTC 2010
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator: =A0 =A0 Henry Grebler
 >>Release: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE i386
 >>Organization:
 >>Environment:
 > System: FreeBSD freew.t-s-f.com.au 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sa=
 t Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 root at almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sy=
 s/GENERIC i386
 >
 >
 >
 >>Description:
 > See also http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D12850
 >
 > I have a loader.conf file which causes a hang at boot time. I suspect
 > a bug in the loader.
 >
 > When I try to boot, I get to:
 >
 > =A0 =A0atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 pnp=
 id PNP0303 on isa0
 >
 > and then nothing, no matter how long I wait. I would expect to see
 > this next:
 >
 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
 >
 > I've tried all the choices on the loader menu including safe mode
 > and single user, all with the same result.
 >
 > I'm running a standard kernel.
 >
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 > The hang still occurs when loader.conf is reduced to:
 >
 > ukbd_load=3D"YES"
 > sem_load=3D"YES"
 > snd_ich_load=3D"YES" =A0 =A0 =A0# Intel ICH5
 >
 > Each individual line by itself in loader.conf works!
 >
 > Further, this does not hang:
 >
 > ukbd_load=3D"YES"
 > sem_load=3D"YES"
 
 Hi Henry,
     Could you try loading up the bootloader prompt and going:
 
 load snd_ich
 boot
 
     Also, same as above but with boot -v instead of boot? What happens
 in those two tries?
 Thanks,
 -Garrett


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