repost of boot issue on 5.3

[J.D. Bronson]

At 05:19 PM 2/5/2005, Chris Hodgins wrote:
>J.D. Bronson wrote:
>>No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is here...
>>I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new clean drive.
>>Freebsd is the ONLY OS on the drive. And i used the entire drive.
>>I selected the standard boot manager (not the freebsd one)...
>>and all the install went fine. This is what I see when I reboot after 
>>install:
>>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
>>Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
>>boot:
>>
>>..and it JUST SITS there. If I hit the return key, it will boot up into 
>>the beastie menu and boot fine. How can I get this machine to boot up on 
>>its OWN?
>>The boot startup sequence on the machine is HARD DRIVE THEN CDROM.
>>This is the only hard drive in the system.
>>Please if anyone knows how to fix this?? - A fresh install with a fresh 
>>drive....and still no luck.

I did just discover this and wonder if I should create a PR for it.

If both IDE channels are enabled and they are all set to AUTO/AUTO for 
master/slave and there is no drive (yet) installed to IDE channel2, the 
machine hangs. If I install a drive to IDE channel2, the machine boots.

Also, if I disable IDE channel2 and just leave channel1 functional, the 
machine also boots.

So what the heck is channel 2 so important for booting a drive on channel1 ?







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