5.3-BETA6 boot-time hang

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20041004152658.GB26211 at tomcat.kitchenlab.org>
            "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah at freebsd.org> writes:
: If memory serves me right, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20041004035745.GA837 at tomcat.kitchenlab.org>
: >             "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah at freebsd.org> writes:
: > : hint.fd.0.disabled=1 is an acceptable workaround to me, at least for now.
: > 
: > Does BETA7 fix things for you?
: 
: I'll give it a try when I get home tonight.  The sources from which I
: built my latest kernel are "fairly close" to 5.3-BETA7, but I'll burn
: a CD from one of the official 5.3-BETA7 ISOs and boot from that to
: reduce the variables involved.

You could also just download the sources and test boot a new kernel.
BETA6 -> BETA7 is so close you can even build it the 'traditional' way
w/o a buildworld :-)

Warner