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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:38:42 GMT
From: JD Bronson <jd@aurora.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: 5.3 refuses to boot when IDE channel2 is enabled and no drive is installed
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>Number:         77154
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       5.3 refuses to boot when IDE channel2 is enabled and no drive is installed
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    remko
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb 06 00:40:15 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Mon Dec 26 15:46:59 GMT 2005
>Last-Modified:  Mon Dec 26 15:46:59 GMT 2005
>Originator:     JD Bronson
>Release:        5.3
>Organization:
Aurora Health Care
>Environment:
FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sat Feb  5 08:58:19 CST 2005     jbronson@shadow.wixb.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WIXB  i386
>Description:
Using 5.3 release is when I 1st noticed this. CVSup to 5.3-STABLE does not fix this trouble.

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 at boot. If I install a drive to IDE channel2, the machine boots.

If I disable IDE channel2, the machine will boot as well.

When it hangs, all I see on the console is:

FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot:

..if I hit <return> at this point, the beastie menu comes up.
The machine will NOT boot on it's own.
>How-To-Repeat:
See Description
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Fri Nov 4 11:33:24 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
Requesting feedback whether this still applies to 
recent situations. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=77154 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Mon Dec 26 15:43:52 UTC 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
The problem description seems like the machine is waiting 
for something to popup on the secondary ide channel. Since 
there is nothing on the secondary channel, the device 
should sent a timeout (i do not know when). I think the 
system will boot when the timeout period is over (Which 
can take a while). 

I requested feedback from the submitter but got no reply. 

I will close the PR with the above mentioned reasons, if 
you feel this is in error, please report back to me and 
help me get more information about this. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->remko 
Responsible-Changed-By: remko 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Dec 26 15:43:52 UTC 2005 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Assign the PR to me so that feedback can arrive at my desk 
and i can do something with that. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=77154 
>Unformatted:
