Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

[Adam Martin]

On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote:

> Adam Martin wrote:
>>
>> On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with 
>>> some
>>> booting issues.  I have searched the archives and found someone 
>>> having a
>>> problem with the machine "booting too fast" but my problem is a 
>>> little
>>> different.  My machine hangs up after the following line is displayed
>>> during boot:
>>>
>>> acd0: CDROM <TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E-N/3.AB> at ata0-master UDMA33

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> Thanks for the reply, Adam.  I actually tried the verbose_logging="YES"
> in my /boot/loader.conf file prior to posting but it still hangs after
> the CD-ROM line for some reason.

	Hey, no problem, Jeff.  To be frank, I just signed up for Questions, 
after Google Summer of Code, and yours is the first one I've answered.  
Glad to see that I've started on the right foot though.

> It appears the only way the machine will boot up properly is if I hit 5
> on the boot menu.  This obviously doesn't make remote reboots very
> "admin friendly"!

	I know that I setup something like this once, because I needed it to 
always drop to command line.  I can help you emulate what's in menu 
option 5, in a loader.4th script.  But you'll have to drop the pretty 
menu, and logo...  If you're willing let me know.	
	

> Thanks again for your reply!

	Like I said, no problem.  Thanks for your enthusiastic support.

Regards,

--
ADAM David Alan Martin

P.S.: It's still me, the same Adam.  Just figured I should use my 
FreeBSD From: address instead of fsl.