boot with floppy enabled doesn't.....

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon May 2 18:51:44 UTC 2016


On Monday, May 02, 2016 12:54:32 PM Larry Rosenman wrote:
> On 2016-05-02 12:27, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > On 2016-05-02 11:57, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> On Saturday, April 30, 2016 10:36:53 PM Larry Rosenman wrote:
> >>> On a current -CURRENT if my Floppy disk controller and device are
> >>> ENABLED, we do NOT pass mount root, and the floppy disk
> >>> light is ON.
> >>> 
> >>> If I disable the floppy controller/drive in the BIOS, we boot.
> >>> 
> >>> This started after April 18.
> >>> 
> >>> I'm not sure what info to gather.
> >> 
> >> I recently changed some things in the fdc(4) driver that are the
> >> first suspect.  You are stuck at the mountroot prompt?  Is your
> >> root filesystem on the floppy or on something else?
> > The system does mount root, but never gets to the RC Scripts.  Root is
> > on ZFS, and NOTHING is in the floppy drive.
> Oh, and it seems(!) like it's a live lock, as if I insert a USB drive, I 
> get the da0 messages.
> 
> Keyboard num lock light will change state, and ctrl/T shows NOTHING.

Can you break into DDB with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and get the output of
'ps'?

-- 
John Baldwin


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