today's 6.1 would not boot here

[Scott Long]

Ariff Abdullah wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:02:06 -0500
> Mikhail Teterin <mi+mxe at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
> 
>>õ ×Ô, 2006-02-28 Õ 09:30 -0700, Scott Long ÐÉÛÅ:
>>
>>>Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>>>
>>>>>http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/test/ich.c
>>>>
>>>>This one still hangs on boot on my system :-(
>>
>>>And the only thing that you have to do to make the problem go away
>>>is disable the sound hardware?
>>
>>Correct. Although I can not rule out some other possible
>>workaround...
>>
> 
> How about all my other suggestion? The "Remove all sound driver from
> the kernel (yes, including sound_load="YES" and snd_ich_load="YES"
> from /boot/loader.conf) , enable your "hardware" sound device, boot,
> and use kldload sound ; kldload snd_ich?"
> 
> I'm suspecting something else.
> 
> p/s: my laptop is dying, falling harddrive (bloody seagate), fsck like
> there's no tomorrow, lost so many things, nearly lost everything I've
> done to improve sound driver. A bad day.
> 
> Bad.. bad day.
> 


Would you mind if I came up with a patch for my idea and passed it to
Mikhail for testing?

Scott