5.3-BETA6 boot-time hang
Søren Schmidt
sos at DeepCore.dk
Mon Oct 4 00:48:19 PDT 2004
Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> I just updated a RELENG_5 system from sometime around 5.3-BETA4 (17
> September) to very late 5.3-BETA6 (just before the 5.3-BETA7 version
> number bump) and it's now hanging after probing its DVD drive. This
> problem sounds vaguely like what was described in the thread "ATTN
> Soren: BETA3 still hangs on ATAPI DVD Detection during boot":
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/036543.html
>
> The interesting thing is that my system appeared to be working just
> fine with the BETA4 code.
>
> I've appended verbose boot output from BETA4, as well as the lines
> that I think were relevant from a BETA6 boot, at least up to the point
> where it hung. The latter output is hand-copied. The system isn't
> totally wedged because I can page back through the console's
> scrollback buffer, but the kernel just doesn't seem to finish probing
> and attaching devices.
>
> I tried disabling ATAPI DMA as Soren suggested in the thread above by
> setting hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 from the loader; this seemed to have no
> effect.
>
> I tried backing out the ata driver updates from 30 September to see if
> that might help matters, but it didn't seem to help. Neither did
> booting the kernel from the 5.3-BETA6 bootonly iso image; that hangs
> in exactly the same way.
>
> At this point I'm kind of flailing around at random. At first I
> had suspected the ata(4) driver but the evidence I've seen so far
> doesn't really point in that direction.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks for any suggestions!
> (probe0:ata0:0:0:0): error 22
> (probe0:ata0:0:0:0): Unretryable Error
Try ripping out atapicam, see if that changes anything....
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-Søren
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