5.3-BETA6 boot-time hang

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 08:39, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <20041004152658.GB26211 at tomcat.kitchenlab.org>
> >             "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah at freebsd.org> writes:
> 
> > : 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 :-)
> 
> The main issue preventing me from doing this right now is that the
> machine in question happens to be my home desktop, ~40 miles away from
> me at this moment.  It doesn't have remote console or power control, so
> recovery from a hang would be kind of difficult.  :-)

No joy...booting with the 5.3-BETA7 bootonly CD-ROM produces the same
symptoms.

I can live without a floppy drive on this machine, but I'm also more
than happy to provide diagnostic information, run tests, etc., for
you or anybody else interested in looking further into this.

Thanks,

Bruce.
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